Early Cold War (Post WWII-1950s)
US policy aimed at stopping the spread of communism
Containment
Red Scare
The term for competition between the US and USSR to build up a weapons stockpile.
Arms Race
A theory that if one country falls to communism, nearby countries will follow.
Domino Theory
Plan to give economic aid to rebuild Western Europe after WWII (communist countries were not given aid in this plan)
Marshall Plan
The senator who led a campaign of accusing Americans of being communists without proper evidence. His name is now associated with hysteria regarding communism.
Joseph McCarthy
The crisis in 1962 when the US and USSR nearly went to war over Soviet Missiles in the Western Hemisphere.
Cuban Missile Crisis
War fought to contain communism from 1950-53 that ended in a stalemate at the 38th parallel.
Korean War
Alliance formed in 1949 between the US and Western European nations.
NATO
The congressional committee that investigated suspected communists in the US government and entertainment industry.
HUAC
The Soviet Union built the _______ ______ in 1961 to prevent Germans from leaving the East and going to the West.
Berlin Wall
The communist group that fought against South Vietnam and the US.
Viet Cong
The US response to the Soviet Union's blockade of the capital of Germany.
Berlin Airlift
The US government increased spending on _________ after worries that the Soviet Union was more advanced than the US in technology.
education
To resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis, the US agreed to remove their missiles from ________ in exchange for the Soviets removing their missiles from Cuba.
Turkey
Surprise communist attack on South Vietnam in 1968 that revealed the US was not doing as well as the government said they were. The US defeated the communists, but it severely undermined public opinion of the war.
Tet Offensive
US policy of sending military and economic aid to any country threatened by communism as part of containment. The first countries to receive such aid were Greece and Turkey.
Truman Doctrine
The couple investigated for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets.
Julius and Ethel Rosenburg
A failed CIA invasion of Cuba by anti-Castro exiles in 1961.
Bay of Pigs
This resolution gave President Johnson broad military powers in Vietnam.
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution