COLD WAR CONFLICTS. origins of the cold war, when the cold war heated up, the cold war at home, and two nations living on edge.
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| 2355555481 | Cold war | A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted eachother on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years. | 0 | |
| 2355555482 | United Nations | an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security | 1 | |
| 2355555483 | Satellite Nation | nation that is dominated politically and economically by a more powerful nation | 2 | |
| 2355555484 | Containment | American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world | 3 | |
| 2355555485 | Iron Curtain | a political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eatern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region | 4 | |
| 2355555486 | Truman Doctrine | President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology (Basically helping NON-communists that were threatened by communism) | 5 | |
| 2355555487 | Marshall Plan | a United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952) | 6 | |
| 2355555488 | Berlin airlift | airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin | 7 | |
| 2355555489 | NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries | 8 | |
| 2355555490 | Chiang Kai-Shek | General and leader of Nationalist China after 1925. Although he succeeded Sun Yat-sen as head of the Guomindang, he became a military dictator whose major goal was to crush the communist movement led by Mao Zedong. (p. 788) | 9 | |
| 2355555491 | Mao Zedong | Chinese communist leader (1893-1976) | 10 | |
| 2355555492 | Taiwan | a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the communists led by Mao Zedong | 11 | |
| 2355555493 | 38th Parallel | line of latitude that separated North and South Korea | 12 | |
| 2355555494 | Korean war | The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea. | 13 | |
| 2355555495 | Loyalty review board | effort to control possible communist influence in US gov: boards to investigate "security risks" working for gov- some employees released for affiliation with unacceptable political organizations/ sexual orientation | 14 | |
| 2355555496 | HUAC | The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) was an investigating committee which investigated what it considered un-American propaganda | 15 | |
| 2355555497 | Hollywood 10 | • Ten people were accused of being a spies for the communists but refused to testify and were sent to prison | 16 | |
| 2355555498 | Blacklist | list that circulated among employers, beginning in 1947, containing the names of persons who should not be hired (So called communists) | 17 | |
| 2355555500 | Alger Hiss/Richard Nixon | Alger Hiss guilty of conspiracy, communist affiliation, and purgery; Chambers had identified him as an underground member; Nixon was the interrogator | 18 | |
| 2355555501 | Ethel and Julius Rosenburg | Gave the Soviet Union important information on a top secret atomic bomb being built in the U.S. | 19 | |
| 2355555502 | Joseph McCarthy | United States politician who unscrupulously accused many citizens of being Communists (1908-1957) | 20 | |
| 2355555503 | McCarthyism | unscrupulously accusing people of disloyalty (as by saying they were Communists) | 21 | |
| 2355555504 | Atomic Cafe | 1982 film. Dark humor about an atomic holocaust. Shows the cynicism of the US at that time. Even 20 years after the start of Vietnam. | 22 | |
| 2355555505 | H-Bomb | hydrogen bomb invented in 1950's, MORE powerful than atomic bomb, example of Cold War arms race | 23 | |
| 2355555506 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | American General who began in North Africa and became the Commander of Allied forces in Europe. | 24 | |
| 2355555507 | John Foster Dulles | United States diplomat who (as Secretary of State) pursued a policy of opposition to the USSR by providing aid to American allies (1888-1959) | 25 | |
| 2355555508 | Brinksmanship | The principle of not backing down in a crisis, even if it meant taking the country to the brink of war. Policy of both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. during the Cold War. | 26 | |
| 2355555509 | CIA | an independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest | 27 | |
| 2355555510 | Warsaw Pact | treaty signed in 1945 that formed an alliance of the Eastern European countries behind the Iron Curtain; USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania | 28 | |
| 2355555511 | Eisenhower Doctrine | Policy of the US that it would defend the Middle East against attack by any Communist country | 29 | |
| 2355555512 | Nikita Khrushchev | Stalin's successor, wanted peaceful coexistence with the U.S. Eisenhower agreed to a summit conference with Khrushchev, France and Great Britain in Geneva, Switzerland in July, 1955 to discuss how peaceful coexistence could be achieved. | 30 | |
| 2355555513 | Francis Gary powers | American pilot shot down in his U-2 spy plane, captured and convicted of spying | 31 | |
| 2355555514 | U-2 Incident | The incident when an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. The U.S. denied the true purpose of the plane at first, but was forced to when the U.S.S.R. produced the living pilot and the largely intact plane to validate their claim of being spied on aerially. The incident worsened East-West relations during the Cold War and was a great embarrassment for the United States. | 32 | |
| 2359965294 | General Douglas McArthur | He wanted to use nuclear weapons to invade China. | 33 | |
| 2359989065 | 1945 Yalta Conference | The Allied leaders (Roosevelt, Churchill, & Stalin) established several agreements: Divide Germany into four zones Get Soviet help against Japan Create the United Nations | 34 | |
| 2360019097 | The Soviet Union and the United States | The two countries emerged as superpowers after WWII. | 35 | |
| 2360040323 | Red Scare | The fear that communism was working inside and outside of the US to destroy American life. | 36 | |
| 2360050257 | 1954 Brown v. Board of Education | This famous Supreme Court case over turned Plessy v. Ferguson. The Brown decision stated that separated but equalities were inherently unequal. | 37 | |
| 2360068735 | Baby Boom | The birth rate drastically increased after the return of soldiers from WWII. | 38 | |
| 2360078098 | 1957 Sputnik | The Soviets are the first to launch a satellite into space. | 39 | |
| 2360089332 | The American Dream | The desire that Americans held to own a home in the suburbs and raise a small family. | 40 | |
| 2360116167 | Rock N' Roll | A new type of music of the 1950s that was a source of expression for teenagers and young people. | 41 | |
| 2360129720 | What were three of the technological advances of the 1950s? | Computer transistor advances in transportation | 42 | |
| 2360140020 | What were some of the medical breakthroughs of 1950s? | Polio vaccine life expectancy of women rose to 71, men 65. focus on the development of new antibiotics, meds for arthritis and cancer | 43 | |
| 2360153448 | What were some of the breakthroughs in air and space during the 1950s? | 1957 Sputnik NASA - National Aeronautics Space Administration is established. 1958 - 4 months later the US launches first satellite into space. Jet planes were developed. | 44 | |
| 2360173431 | 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott | Blacks refused to ride buses in protest of segregation on buses. | 45 | |
| 2360174636 | Boycott | To refuse to purchase goods or services to protest something that is viewed in a negative way. | 46 | |
| 2360180170 | SCLC - Southern Christian Leadership Conference | Martin Luther King Jr. established this organization to help the fight for civil rights. | 47 | |
| 2360184416 | Civil Rights Act of 1957 | It created the Civil Rights Commission and gave the Justice Department the power to investigate cases of African Americans being denied voting rights. | 48 |
