The Cold War Begins
Nuclear Age/McCarthyism
Korean War
Space Race
JFK & Cuba
100
Why does the Yalta Conference foreshadow Cold War tensions?
After Stalin moves West into Germany he doesn't want to give up the land he gained in Eastern Europe on his way
100
Who is the Senator from Wisconsin who gained political power through the use of fear about communism and ruined hundreds of lives
Joseph McCarthy
100
What term is used to describe a fight (over political ideologies) between the US and the USSR in another country
Proxy War
100
Who is the leader of the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin dies?
Nikita Kruschev
100
JFK and Kruschev during the Cuban Missile Crisis
200
What is the name of a nation controlled politically and economically by a more powerful nation
Satellite State
200
What term is used to refer to the quick build-up of military weapons to achieve superiority?
Arms Race
200
Who is the general in command of the Korean war before being let go after wanting to "rock the Chinese back to the stone age"
General Douglass McArthur
200
What organization was created in the United States to create spy planes and compete with the Soviet Union’s Space exploration
NASA
200
What is unique about the 1960 presidential election?
They are the first televised elections
300
What is the name of the Economic Plan for both the US and Soviet Union that connect countries under their sphere of influence
USA= Marshall Plan
USSR= COMECON
300
How are civil liberties affected due to McCarthyism and the Red Scare
Amendment rights are ignored and American citizens are punished by the government for expressing freedoms protected in the Constitution
300
Why does President Truman refer to the United States' involvement in Korea as “Police Involvement”
By calling it "Police Involvement" Turman is able to deploy troops and aid without getting Congressional Approval
300
What is the first man-made object put into space and what country does it?
Sputnik 1
Soviet Union
300
What is Kennedy's New Frontier and why is it difficult to get passed
Kennedy's progressive new ideas for the US both domestic and foreign
A conservative Congress refuses to pass any new frontier legislation
400
What is the name of the mutual defense treaty for both Western Allies and Soviet Allies
USA= NATO
USSR= Warsaw Pact
400
Where is the Iron Curtain?
400
Where is the Korean peninsula split between North and South Korea before and after the Korean War?
Before: 38th Parallel
After: DMZ Demilitirazed Zone
400
What to spy agencies were created for both the US and USSR and what were their 2 primary purposes?
US: CIA
USSR: KGB
1. Gather information about the other country (technology, plans, weapons, space exploration)
2. Influence other, smaller, foreign governments to act in their interests
400
Why is the Bay of Pigs Invasion unsuccessful?
The US underestimated Castro’s support in Cuba and were not able to force an overthrow of the government with Cuban Exiles
500
What are 3 major differences between the United States and the Soviet Union at the end of WWII?
USA= capitalist, democratic, civil Liberties (bill of rights), value on the individual
USSR= communist, dictatorship, state monitors individuals, value on the state
500
Why is the 1950s a decade of paranoia and anxiety? (4 Examples)
Fear of nuclear war from the Soviet Union
Nuclear testing
Fear of Soviet Spies
McCarthyism
HUAC Hearings
Mutually Assured Destruction
Korean War
Communism Spreading
500
Why is the Korean War referred to as the "forgotten war" (3 Reasons)
Never called a War by Truman
No major territorial gains are had at the conclusion of the fighting
Didn't necessarily have a clear end or a clear winner/loser
happened after WWII which was a much larger conflict
500
What is the name of the mission that puts man on the moon and what are the names of the three astronauts that reach the moon?
Apollo 11
Neil Armstrong
Buzz Aldrin
Michael Collins
500
Why does tension rise between the US and Cuba? (post WWII through the Cuban Millile Crisis)
The US Supported a corrupt dictator (Batista) who was in charge of Cuba
Fidel Castro overthrew the government and made Cuba a socialist state taking back all land from the US
President Eisenhower plans an attack on Cuba to overthrow Castro
Castro Aligns with the Soviet Union after US attacks on Cuban trade
The US launches the Bay of Pigs Invasion that is a huge failure
A year later Ballistic Missiles capable of reaching Washington DC are discovered in Cuba and identified as Soviet Missiles
The US decided to form a blockade around Cuba leading to the Cuban Missile Crisis where for 13 days the world holds it breath as the possibility of nuclear war gets as close as it will ever get during the Cold War