Cold War in SC
Who was John Walker?
Naval officer who was stationed in Charleston where he sold secrets to the USSR.
Built to divide the city of Berlin during the Cold War
What was the Berlin Wall?
What was the Arms Race?
Build up of Nuclear Weapons by both the US and USSR during the Cold War
How did the construction of Highways help SC?
Military transportation
Allowed tourism to SC beaches
Economic growth
What was the Berlin Airlift?
The United States flew supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union blocked land routes to the city.
What is the Truman doctrine?
US policy during the Cold War to intervene in other countries in any way possible to stop the spread of communism.
Similarly to WW2, what was constructed in SC to help us fight the Cold War.
Military Bases
What was the Iron Curtain?
The “Iron Curtain” was the political divide between Western democratic nations and Eastern communist countries in Europe during the Cold War.
Wat was the Marshall Plan?
Plan to give Europe money to recover after WW2 and so that they would not become communist.
What affect did SC have on the Cold War?
Teacher discretion
Submarines in Charleston
Military Bases
Savannah River site
Alliance between communist countries in Eastern Europe.
What was the Warsaw Pact?
Describe what a proxy conflict is and why they were common in the Cold War.
A proxy conflict is a war where major powers support opposing sides without directly fighting each other, and they were common in the Cold War because the United States and Soviet Union wanted to spread their influence while avoiding direct conflict that could lead to nuclear war.
Nuclear site constructed in SC to enrich nuclear material and dispose of the radioactive waste.
What was the Savannah River site?
The alliance between capitalist nations during the Cold War.
What was NATO?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Explain Capitalism and Communism and why they were ideologically incompatible.
Capitalism is an economic system based on private ownership and free markets, while Communism is based on government ownership and equality, and they were ideologically incompatible because one prioritizes individual profit and competition while the other seeks to eliminate class differences and private wealth.