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Modern US
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| What 3 events caused the cold war to warm up | Missle crisis, Berlin Airlift, and U-2 incident |
| Truman docterain | Speech stating that the US could provied first aid and financial assistance to turkey, greece and other nations threatend by commmunism |
| communist | gov who controls the means of production and purchasing power |
| Berlin airlift | the response to the soviet blockade |
| explain MacArthur vs. Truman | MacArthur wanted nuclear war and Truman wanted peace |
| Richard Nixon | Lead the process of alger hiss |
| Esienhower | republican who easly gains power after WWII |
| Chirchill | used different ideas with the development in the iron curtain |
| Truman | 3rd president of the U.S 18945-1953, authorized use of the atomic bomb, signed the marshall plan to rebuild europe, wanted peace between N.&S. Korea. |
| Stalin | part of the big 3 who made the decision to divide germany. leader of the USSR 1925-1953, became an aggressive participant in the cold war. died in the korean war |
| Sung and Rhee | Sung leader of N. Korea and his Son is next to rule. Rhee is leader of S. Korea |
| Eisenhower | 34th (republican) president of US 1953-1961, leader of allied forces in WWII, promoted business and continued social programs |
| Mao Zedong | leader of Communists who took over china in 1949, remained in power until death in 1976 |
| MacArthur | US general during the Great Depression, WWII and Korea War, forced by truman to resign in 1951 because he wanted control over N.& S. Korea, commanded forces in Japan |
| Alger Hiss | first gov. official to be accused of spying, charged and found guilty of lying, |
| Ethel and Julius Rosenberg | first US citizens to be accused of sending secrets of the atomic weapon to the USSR and found guilty with death penalty |
| Joseph McCarthy | republican senator from Wisconsin from late 1940's lead a crusade to investigate officials he claimed were communists |
| Francis Gary Powers | Spouted spy shoot down on USSR soil, US established a prisoner exchange to get him back |
| Yalta Conference | Stalin promises poland free elections, (Roosevelt, churchill and stalin) discuss the division of germany here |
| Postdam Conference | (truman, attlee, and stalin) finalized the division of germany here |
| Korean War | N. vs. S. both fight for total control of Korea |
| Chinese fall to communism | 1949 US provoked when N. invades S. Korea |
| Berlin Airlift | moving of supplies into west berlin by american Society and British planes during Soviet Blockade in 1948-49 |
| McCarthy Hearings | Bully, interigated victims with out proff |
| Berlin Wall | barrier built by East Germany gov. to divide communist from non-communists |
| U-2 incident | 1960 soviet military used a guided missle to shoot an american u-2 spy plane over Soviet territory |
| Space race | Started when the soviet launched the sputnik in 1957 US established one in 1958 to compete with the soviets |
| Satellite Nations | a country dominated politically and economically by another nation ecpecailly by the USSR during the cold war |
| Containment | american policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world |
| Cold war | developed after WWII between the US and USSR for power lasting until the collaspe of the USSR |
| Marshall plan | Program of economic assistance for the americans to western Europe in 1947 |
| NATO | established a system of collective security for US, UK, and greece in 1949 |
| 38th parallel | latitude line that divided N.& S. Korea at approximately the midpoint of the penninsula |
| HUAC | commitee that searches out communists, felt they were producing pro-communists films |
| loyalty review board | investigated gov. officals anf other offices |
| Blacklist | list that circulated the name of people who should not be hired because they were said to be communists |
| McCarthyism | describes McCarthys anti-communists smear tatics, punished by senate republicans |
| H-Bomb | force to 10 million tons of tnt, US got it first, USSR quickly followed |
| Brinkmanship | 1956 Esienhower's idea to decribe a policy of risking war in order to protect national interests. |
| Warsaw Pact | military alliance between the soviet union and the nations of Eastern Europe formed in 1955 |
| Sputnik | the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth launched by the soviets in 1957 |
| Red Scare | Intense fear of communism and other politically radical ideas |
| Hollywood ten | group of people who didn't agree with communism and where sent to jail |
| espionage | to spy on another country. death sentence if caught |
| Iron curtain | divided democracy countries form communists countries |
| list of countries that are neutral in the iron curtain | Yugoslavia and austria |
| Deterrence | policy of making the military between nations |
| ICBM's | Intercontinental Ballistic Missle a missle range greater than 5500km |
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