Origins of the Cold War
The blocking of another nation's attempts to spread its influence - especially the efforts of the United States to block the spread of the Soviet influence during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
What is containment?
A conflict between North Korea and South Korea, lasting from 1950-1953, in which the U.S., along with other UN countries, fought on the side of South Koreans and China fought on the side of North Koreans.
What is the Korean War?
Witnesses from the film industry who refused to cooperate with the HUAC's investigation of Communist influence in Hollywood.
What are the Hollywood Ten?
A competition between nations to gain an advantage in weapons.
What is an arms race?
Kennedy cuts off relations with THIS nation because of the rise of this leader, who openly declared himself a communist and welcomed the Soviet Union
What is Cuba?
A phrase used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe an imaginary line that separated Communist countries in the Soviet bloc of Eastern Europe from countries in Western Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
The line of latitude that divides North and South Korea.
What is the 38th parallel?
Citizens of the United States who were sentenced to death because they passed atomic bomb secrets to the Soviets.
Who were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
The idea that if a nation falls under Communist control, nearby nations will also fall under Communist control.
What is the domino theory?
Kennedy's failed invasion of Cuba in 1961 when a force of 1,200 Cuban exiles, backed by the United States
What is the Bay of Pigs Incident?
A defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European countries, the United States and Canada.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
How the Korean War ended.
What is an armistice (stalemate)?
The attacks, often unsubstantiated, by this senator and others on people suspected of being Communists in the early 1950s.
Who is Joseph McCarthy (McCarthyism)?
The practice of threatening an enemy with massive military retaliation for any aggression.
What is brinkmanship?
A direct telephone connection between the US and Soviet Union leaders to communicate directly during a crisis
What is a hotline?
The program proposed under which the United States supplied economic aid to European nations to help them rebuild after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
Who is Mao Zedong?
Congressional committee created in 1938 that investigated Communist influence inside and outside the U.S. government in the years following WWII.
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
The downing of a U.S. spy plane and capture of its pilot by the Soviet Union in 1960.
What is the U-2 Incident?
A confrontation among the Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States in October 1962, during the Cold War.; the closest that the U.S. to direct confrontation with the USSR.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
A 327-day operation in which U.S. and British planes flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviets blockaded the city in 1948.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
Ruler of southern and eastern China, relied heavily on aid from the United States, leader the the Nationalists Party
Who is Chiang Kai-shek?
What is mutually assured destruction?
Major Cold War confrontation in 1962 --> Soviets building missile bases on Cuba, atomic missiles could reach US within minutes.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Standoff between Khrushchev and Kennedy over control of West Germany.
What is the Berlin Crisis?