Cold War in Europe
A U.S. foreign policy of providing economic and military aid to countries that were attempting to resist communism
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The Korean War started after North Korea passed this border.
What is the 38th parallel?
A fear of communism in the United States following World War II
What is the Second Red Scare? (Red Scare also accepted)
A competition between nations to achieve the more powerful weapons arsenal - played a role in Cuba
What is the arms race?
What is communism?
A U.S. plan to aid in the economic recovery of Europe after WWII by offering certain European countries a lot of money and supplies.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This general was fired by President Truman after he publicly disagreed with him.
Who is General McArthur?
The practice of publicly accusing people of subversive activities (communism) without evidence to back up the charges.
What is McCarthyism?
An invasion of Cuba in 1961 by CIA trained exiled Cubans for the purpose of overthrowing Castro. The invasion failed.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
The policy saying the U.S. will not allow communism to spread to new areas
What is containment?
This was done in response to the Berlin Blockade so West Berlin would not fall to communism.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This country made the U.S. form a closer alliance with Japan after it became communist in 1949.
What is China?
A committee of the U.S. House of Representatives that investigated communism (subversive activities) in the United States
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee? (HUAC)
A confrontation between the US and USSR in October of 1962 over the building of Soviet missile-launching sites in Cuba. The US agreed to not invade Cuba and the USSR agreed to remove missiles from Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
a list of people or groups who are under suspicion for something and are excluded from certain opportunities
What is a blacklist?
This alliance of countries was created to protect against the Soviet Union.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
This stopped the fighting between North and South Korea, keeping the same borders as the start of the war.
What is an armistice?
The controversial 1951 trial of two Americans charged with passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
What is the Rosenberg Trial?
The solution proposed by President Kennedy to the Cuban Missile Crisis. It involved stopping ships bound for Cuba that were carrying weapons.
What is a quarantine?
A foreign policy characterized by a willingness to push a dangerous situation to the edge of war rather than give in to an opponent
What is brinkmanship?