Early Cold War 1
Military alliance of Communist countries formed in 1955.
Warsaw Pact
This military alliance was created by western democratic nations to ensure mutual defense against the Soviet Union.
NATO
In 1961, when Kennedy refused to end US military presence in West Berlin, Krushchev did this.
This US Senator is associated with the Red Scare and fueling fears about communism.
Joseph McCarthy
Name of competition with USSR related to outer orbit
What is the space race?
-a political theory based on having a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
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Communism
The imaginary division between communist and democratic countries in Europe.
Iron Curtain
-main strategy of Cold War
-keep communism from being spread
containment
Provide two professions McCarthy targeted during McCarthyism
teachers
writers
actors
democratic politicians
union members
military
Name of first calculating computer system
10 for acronym (UN)
10 for full name
International Business Machines
Policy to promote democracy in Europe by helping countries recover economically from WWII.
Marshall Plan
Communist leader of China
Chairman Mao (Zedong)
-13 day standoff over Soviet missiles in Cuba.
-closest to nuclear annihilation
Cuban Missile Crisis
Presidential policy to lend economic and miltary aid to countries under communist threat.
Truman Doctrine
Name of top secret WWII project that resulted in the bombs in Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
Manhattan Project
These two countries were the first examples to receive aid through the Truman ----ine
Turkey and Greece
2 parts:
1. Name of country founded by loser of Chinese Civil War
2. Name of Nationalist leader
1. Taiwan
2. Chiang Kai-Shek
-Failed airborne coup on Cuba by Cuban exiles.
-attempt by the CIA to overthrow Fidel Castro.
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The television becomes widespread.
Teenage (rebellious) culture spreads.
People begin moving and settling in the suburbs.
Cars become a major part of American culture (drive-ins, etc.)
Name Russians gave to their astronauts
Cosmonauts
United Nations forces were first used in combat to fight communism here.
Korea/Korean War
-Soviet reaction from unified West Berlin US, Britain, and France
-Tried to unify Berlin under communism.
Berlin Blockade
How did the Soviet Union and United States end the Cuban Missile Crisis?
US took missiles out of Turkey
Soviets took missiles out of Cuba
nuclear bomb safety film and phrase from 1940s-50s
features Bert the turtle
duck and cover
What year did the Soviet Union drop their first atomic bomb?
1949