Cold War Flashcards

5704444924	Communism	An economic and political system based on one-party government and state ownership of property.	0
5704444925	Containment	The blocking of another nation's attempts to spread it's influence - especially the efforts of the United States to block the spread of Soviet influence during the late 1940s to early 1950s.	1
5704444926	Satellite Nations	A country that is dominated politically and economically by another nation.	2
5704444927	Iron Curtain	A phrase used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe the imaginary line that separated Communist countries in the Soviet bloc of Eastern Europe from the countries in Western Europe.	3
5704444928	Truman Doctrine	A U.S. policy, announced by President Harry Truman in 1947, of providing economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents.	4
5704444929	Marshall Plan	The program, proposed by Secretary of State George Marshall in 1947, under which the United States supplied economic aid to European nations to help them rebuild after World War II.	5
5704444930	Berlin Airlift	A 327-day operation in which U.S. and British planes flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviets blockaded the city in 1948.	6
5704444931	NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)	Military alliance created in 1949 made up of 12 non-Communist countries including the United States that support each other if attacked.	7
5704444932	Warsaw Pact	A Military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites.	8
5704444933	McCarthyism	The attacks, often unsubstantiated, by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others on people suspected of being Communist in the early 1950s.	9
5704444935	38th Parallel	Latitude line/boundary between North and South Korea.	10
5704444936	John F. Kennedy (JFK)	35th President of the United States. Was in office during the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Cuban Missile Crisis and the building of the Berlin Wall.	11
5704444937	Fidel Castro	Communist dictator of Cuba who came into power in 1959.	12
5704444938	Bay of Pigs	Failed CIA operation in April 1961to overthrow Castro and take over Cuba using Cuban exiles.	13
5704444939	Cuban Missile Crisis	13 Day period in October 1962 when Soviet nuclear missile were pointed at the United States in Cuba.	14
5704444940	Berlin Wall	A concrete wall that separated East Berlin and West Berlin from 1961-1989, built by Communist East German government to prevent its citizens from fleeing to the West.	15
5704444941	Korean War	A conflict between North Korea and South Korea, lasting from 1950-1953, in which the United States along with other UN countries, fought on the side of the South Koreans while China fought on the side of the North Koreans.	16
5704444942	China	Asian nation that turns to Communism in 1949 after the Mao Zedong comes into power and fights with the North in the Korean War.	17
5704444944	Joseph Stalin	Soviet leader following World War II, dies in the middle of the Korean War in 1953.	18
5704444945	Harry Truman	33rd President of the United States. He fired General Douglass MacArthur over disagreements on the Korean War.	19
5704444946	Mao Zedong	Communist leader of China who comes into power in 1949.	20
5704444948	Ethel and Julius Rosenberg	Married couple who become the first U.S. citizens put to death for espionage in 1953. They were charged with passing Atomic Bomb secrets to the Soviets.	21
5704444950	House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)	A congressional committee that investigated Communist influence inside and outside the U.S. government in the years following World War II.	22
5704444960	Nikita Khrushchev	Soviet leader from 1955-1964, responsible for putting missiles in Cuba.	23
5704444962	Domino Theory	The idea that if a nation falls under communist control, nearby nations will also fall under communist control	24
5704444963	17th Parallel	Line of latitude that separated North and South Vietnam	25
5704444964	Ho Chi Minh	Communist leader of North Vietnam, led the fight against the French and then the Americans to reunify the country	26
5704444965	Lyndon B. Johnson	Became president after Kennedy's assassination and reelected in 1964; committed the US more heavily to fighting in Vietnam after the Gulf of Tonkin incident	27
5704444968	United Nations	An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation.	28
5704512522	Stalemate	result of the Korean War	29
5704516356	college campuses	where most protests of the Vietnam War occurred	30
5704522160	North took over the South	result of the Vietnam War	31
5704539588	Watergate	scandal involving President Nixon forcing him to resign	32
5704542972	Vietnamization	Nixon's policy of training South Vietnamese troops to fight so we could leave the war	33
5704563971	guerilla warfare	tactic used by the North Vietnamese to fight the war	34
5704579005	"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall"	quote by Reagan during the war	35
5704594046	increased military spending, rising nationalism in republics, glasnost and perestroika,	causes for the Soviet Union collapse	36
5704597220	glasnost	Soviet policy meaning openness	37
5704604639	perestroika	Soviet term meaning Economic restructuring	38
5704614280	2nd President to be impeached	Clinton	39
5704663905	reunification of Germany, 1st Gulf war, collapse of Yugoslavia	Foreign Policy under George H W Bush	40
5704672274	first war women could serve in combat	1st Persian gulf war	41
5704681103	Saddam Hussein Iraq invaded neighboring oil rich Kuwait	cause of 1st Gulf War	42
5704691291	Bill Clinton Foreign Policy	lifted sanctions against South Africa, full relationship with Vietnam, signed NAFTA (North American Free Trade)	43
5704707749	George W Bush Foreign policy	9-11, war in Iraq, War in Afghanistan	44
5704714042	Patriot Act	legal surveillance of citizens after 9-11	45
5704727265	1994 Republican takeover	Republicans win Congressional seats during Clinton term with Contract with America	46
5704742775	Fiscal Policy	Congress and the President set taxes and spending policy based on GDP, unemployment and inflation	47
5704758432	Monetary Policy	Federal reserve policy on interest rates	48
5704776517	Conservative Republicans policy	tax cuts, increased military spending, appoint justices with judicial restraint, reduce government programs	49