People
Leader of the United States during the start of the Cold War.
Harry S. Truman
US foreign policy that promised to give aid to any nation struggling against communist movements.
Truman Policy
Name given to Eastern European countries under Soviet/communist control.
satellite states
The first real conflict of the Cold War.
Korean War
The alliance formed to defend Europe from further Soviet aggression.
NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization
He pushed for the invasion of China during the Korean and eventually got fired.
General MacArthur
US foreign policy that offered economic aid to Western Europe after WWII – goal was to keep depression from happening again and stabilize Europe nations so they would not fall to communism.
Marshall Plan
The name given to the dividing line between Eastern Europe and non-communist Western Europe.
iron curtain
What event started the Korean War?
North Korea invaded South Korea
This growing fear in the US that communist from the inside and out were working to undermined the American way of life.
Red Scare
Nationalist leader of China who was supported by the US; he defeat led to the creation of communist China
Chiang Kai-Shek
US financial aid to Europe after WWII was implemented to support what policy of the US.
containment
This leader's ideology conflicted with that of the US and led to a 47 year competition for global influence.
Joseph Stalin
What were the US and Britain forced to fly in supplies to West Berlin?
Soviet blockade
Name one of the two actions the US took after the Soviet Union Launched Sputnik.
National Defense Education Act
NASA
The victorious communist leader in China's civil war. He was supported by the Soviet Union.
Mao Zedong
Instead of building traditional forces, Eisenhower promised to used crushing force to defend its allies, so he focused on building up the US's nuclear arsenal.
massive retaliation
Stalin's refusal to allow this in Eastern Europe was a major cause of the Cold War
free elections
The long term results of the Korean War for America.
·Military spending increased
·Military commitments increased worldwide
·Relations with Japan improved
·Future presidents send military into combat without Congressional approval
This multi-national organization was started after WWII to promote world wide peace.
United Nations
President who brought an end to the Korean War.
Eisenhower
Name the idea behind alliances like NATO and SEATO that means an attack on one is an attack on all.
collective security
What term did Churchill coin during this speech, "Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere"
iron curtain
This nations entrance into the Korean War changed Truman's strategy in the war and what was the new strategy.
China / limited war
formed the Warsaw Pact
This leader of the Soviet Union came to power after the death of Stalin.
Turkey and Greece
What was one of the actions by the allies during WWII that soured the relationship between the West and the Soviet Union.
West put off invading the European continent
Dropping of the atomic bomb
What tow nations did the 38th parallel create and what political ideology did each have.
Communist North Korea
non-communist/democratic South Korea
This Asian country's fall to communism shocked America and set a precedent for future actions in the region.
China
US Army
Congressional committee that investigated possible subversive activities within the United States.
HUAC - House of Un-American Activities Committee
What did the Soviet Union do in 1949 that shifted the balance on power in the world and panicked Americans?
test an atomic bomb
As a part of the United Nations, what was the first action the US was involved in.
What organization was formed to stop communism from spreading in Asia?
SEATO - Southeast Asia Treaty Organization