Chilly War
A period of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union without direct large-scale fighting.
what was the cold war?
A U.S.-led operation that flew food and supplies into a divided German city after the Soviet Union blocked land access routes.
what was the Berlin Airlift?
The communist leader who led a revolution in China and established a new government aligned with the Soviet Union in 1949.
Who was Mao Zedong?
A thermonuclear weapon far more destructive than earlier atomic bombs, developed during escalating Cold War tensions.
What is a hydrogen bomb?
This Cold War competition extended beyond military power and became a way for both superpowers to demonstrate ideological and technological superiority.
What was the space race?
This U.S. president escalated American involvement in Vietnam following the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, sent nearly half a million troops to Vietnam.
Who was Lyndon Baines Johnson
A Cold War alliance rooted in collective security, created to deter Soviet expansion by binding Western nations to a mutual defense commitment. (still around today)
What was NATO
A theory used to justify U.S. intervention abroad, arguing that the fall of one country to communism would likely lead to neighboring countries falling as well.
what is the domino theory?
A defense strategy that threatened the use of overwhelming nuclear force in response to any Soviet aggression. A concept in which both sides in a nuclear conflict would be completely destroyed, discouraging either from launching an attack.
what is massive retaliation/ mutually assured destruction?
A 1962 confrontation that brought the United States and Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war after the discovery of Soviet missiles in the Western Hemisphere.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
A 1947 policy that justified U.S. support for nations resisting communist influence, especially in Greece and Turkey.
What was the Truman Doctrine?
A Soviet-led military alliance created in response to NATO that included Eastern European communist nations.
What was the warsaw pact?
A group of film industry professionals who refused to answer questions about communist ties and were jailed for contempt of Congress.
what was the Hollywood 10?
A U.S. foreign policy strategy, influenced by George Kennan, that sought to prevent the spread of communism without directly attacking the Soviet Union.
What was containment?
The Soviet Union’s launch of this satellite in 1957 shocked Americans and led to fears of technological inferiority.
What was the launch of sputnik?
Winston Churchill used this term to describe the division between communist Eastern Europe and democratic Western Europe.
What was the Iron Curtain
A conflict that began in 1950 when communist forces invaded a neighboring (North invaded south Korea) country, prompting a United Nations-backed military response.
What is the Korean War?
A U.S. senator who claimed to have lists of communists in government and led aggressive investigations during the early Cold War.
Who was Joseph McCarthy?
This Cuban revolutionary leader aligned his country with the Soviet Union, increasing Cold War tensions in the Western Hemisphere.
Who was Fidel Castro?
This U.S. government agency was created in 1958 to coordinate civilian space exploration and respond to Soviet advancements.
What is NASA?
A U.S. economic recovery program that sent billions of dollars to rebuild Western Europe and stabilize governments against communism.(George C Marshall)
What was the Marshall Plan?
A dividing line established after WWII that separated a communist regime in the north from a democratic government in the south.
What is the 38th parallel?
A period of intense suspicion and accusations in the United States targeting alleged communists, often without solid evidence.
What is the Red Scare/ McCarthyism?
A strategy of pushing political and military conflicts to the edge of war in order to force an opponent to back down.
What is Brinkmanship?
A 1960 incident in which a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft was shot down over Soviet territory, increasing tensions between the superpowers.
What was the U2 incident?