Early Cold War
Events
Events
During this conflict, Chinese forces pushed UN forces south past the 38th parallel.
What is the Korean War?
This man represented the United States at the Yalta Conference. However, he passed away and was replaced by his successor at the Potsdam Conference a few months later.
This term was used to describe the division between a Democratic Western Europe and a Communist Eastern Europe
What is the iron curtain?
This Cold War policy was meant to keep the Soviets from expanding their power. Its creators believed that it would lead to the collapse of the Soviet system.
What is the Containment Policy?
This era, a response to the potential threat of communism in America, began when a Soviet clerk turned over documents proving that Soviets were trying to infiltrate the US government.
What is the Second Red Scare?
This man, who represented Great Britain at both the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences, coined the phrase “iron curtain” in a speech warning about Soviet plans to conquer Europe.
Who is Winston Churchill?
The purpose of this organization was to proclaim mutual defense against any threat of communism to its members.
What is NATO?
The purpose of this policy of financial aid was both to help contain communism and to help the nations of Western Europe rebuild after the devastation of World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This was the US and British response to Stalin's blockade of Germany's capital.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This man publicly criticised President Truman’s strategy in the Korean War. As a result, he was fired.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
This is a term used to describe Pro-Soviet Communist governments such as those established in Poland, Romania and Hungary after World War II.
What are satelite nations?
This containment policy utilized American financial aid to help fight communism anywhere where it was a threat. Examples of countries aided by this policy include Greece and Turkey.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
At this event in early 1945 it was decided that Germany would be divided up into four zones following World War II- each zone belonging to a different Allied power.
What is the Yalta Conference?
This man became famous when he accused members of the State Department of being communists. He lost his popularity when he accused members of the US Army of the same thing.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
This term refers to the tactic of damaging reputations with vague, unfounded charges. It takes its name from a US Senator who became famous for this behavior.
What is McCarthyism?
This international political organization was created after World War II with the goal of preventing another world war.
What is the United Nations?
At this event in 1945 President Truman and Joseph Stalin disagreed about whether or not Germany should pay war reparations.
What is the Potsdam Conference?
These two people were convicted of passing atomic secrets to the Soviets. They were executed for their crimes.
Who are Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
Under President Eisenhower, the CIA engaged in these types of activities in countries threatened by communism- the purpose of which were often to overthrow Anti-American leaders and replace them with pro-American leaders.
What are covert operations?
This Cold War policy from the 1950s gave the President the authority to use the military in the Middle East to help nations resist Communist aggression.
What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?