AP US History Chapter 27: The Cold War Flashcards
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| 6494345466 | Alger Hiss | A former State Department official who was accused of being a Communist spy and was convicted of perjury. The case was prosecuted by Richard Nixon. | 0 | |
| 6494345467 | Containment | American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world. | 1 | |
| 6494345468 | Douglas MacArthur | (1880-1964), U.S. general. Commander of U.S. (later Allied) forces in the southwestern Pacific during World War II, he accepted Japan's surrender in 1945 and administered the ensuing Allied occupation. He was in charge of UN forces in Korea 1950-51, before being forced to relinquish command by President Truman. | 2 | |
| 6494345469 | Fair Deal | An economic extension of the New Deal proposed by Harry Truman that called for higher minimum wage, housing and full employment. It led only to the Housing Act of 1949 and the Social Security Act of 1950 due to opposition in congress. | 3 | |
| 6494345470 | George F. Kennan | an American advisor, diplomat, political scientist, and historian, best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War. He later wrote standard histories of the relations between Russia and the Western powers. | 4 | |
| 6494345471 | House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) | A congressional committee created to search out disloyal Americans & Communists. | 5 | |
| 6494345472 | Joseph McCarthy | 1950s; Wisconsin senator claimed to have list of communists in American gov't, but no credible evidence; took advantage of fears of communism post WWII to become incredibly influential; "McCarthyism" was the fearful accusation of any dissenters of being communists | 6 | |
| 6494345473 | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg | Arrested in the Summer of 1950 and executed in 1953, they were convicted of conspiring to commit espionage by passing plans for the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. | 7 | |
| 6494345475 | Marshall Plan | A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). | 8 | |
| 6494345476 | National Security Act | Passed in 1947 in response to perceived threats from the Soviet Union after WWII. It established the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and National Security Council. | 9 | |
| 6494345477 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security. | 10 | |
| 6494345478 | NSC-68 | National Securtiy Council memo #68 US "strive for victory" in cold war, pressed for offensive and a gross increase ($37 bil) in defense spending, determined US foreign policy for the next 20-30 yrs | 11 | |
| 6494345480 | Taft-Hartly Act | Regulated Unions, outlawed all union shops, made unions liable for damages, forced union leaders to take a non communist oath. | 12 | |
| 6494345481 | Thomas E. Dewey | was the 47th Governor of New York (1943-1954). In 1944 he was the Republican candidate for President, but lost to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the closest of Roosevelt's four presidential elections. In 1948 he was again the Republican candidate for President, but lost to the incumbent President, Harry S. Truman, in one of the greatest upsets in presidential election history. | 13 | |
| 6494345482 | Truman Doctrine | 1947, President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology, mainly helped Greece and Turkey. | 14 | |
| 6494345483 | United Nations | An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation. | 15 | |
| 6494345484 | Warsaw Pact | An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO. | 16 | |
| 6494345489 | Potsdam | July 26, 1945 - Allied leaders Truman, Stalin and Churchill met in Germany to set up zones of control and to inform the Japanese that if they refused to surrender at once, they would face total destruction. | 17 | |
| 6494353421 | GI Bill | Providing veterans wth free higher education, loans to start business | 18 | |
| 6494356268 | Twenty-second Amendment | constitutional amendment to limit a president to a maxi- mum of two full terms in office. | 19 | |
| 6494358131 | Why the fair deal was defeated? | (1) Truman's political conflicts with Congress and (2) the pressing foreign policy concerns of the Cold War. | 20 | |
| 6494365710 | Army-McCarthy hearings | Televised hearings in which the U.S. Army fought back against Senator McCarthy's unwarranted accusations; the broadcast fascinated the American public and led to McCarthy's downfall, as he appeared irrational, reckless, and mean-spirited; he was condemned by Congress a few months later. | 21 |