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Cold War Notes
for Friday's Quiz, Pertains to US history book: Prentice Hall
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Red Scare | A reaction to the fear that communism was going to destroy American life, McCarthy's accusations significantly contributed to this. |
| HUAC | The House Un-Activities Committee investigated possible subversive activities by fasists, Nazis, or communists. |
| Hollywood Ten | Group of writers, directors, and producers refused to answer questions, arguing it was a violation of their 5th amendment rights. |
| Smith Act | made it unlawful to teach or advocate the violent overthrow of the US gov. was used to cripple the communist party in the US |
| McCarthy | Stated that the State Department was infested with communist agents. he had a list of communists. focused his reelection on anticommunism. emphasized his accusations on communists, destroying their reputations. |
| Black List | List of entertainment figures that shouldn't be hired due to their suspected communist affiliations. the attorney general's list. |
| Watkins v US | 1957,concluding this case the supreme court decided that witnesses before HUAC couldn't be forced to name radicals they knew. |
| Alger Hiss and Julius & Ethel Rosenberg Trial | They have never meet, however from the public's acknowledgement their crims and rials have linked them together. |
| Alger Hiss | Whittaker Chambers disrupted his image. a government employee accused of spying for the soviet union |
| Ethel and Julius Rosenberg | executed in 1950 due to atomic affiliations with the soviet union. |
| Cold War | starts 1950, |
| "Salad Bowl" | heterogeneous mixture of cultures |
| Eisenhower Doctorine | in return to soviet influence in the middle east, Eisenhower announced that the US would use force to help any middle east nation threatened by communism. he used this doctrine in 1958 to justify sending troops to Lebanon. |
| CIA | Central Intelligence Agency, created in 1947, intelligence gathering org.,helped other foreign countries with gov establishment. |
| Lean Penetha | |
| NASA + National Defense Education Act | National Aeronautics and Space Administration, in addition to the billion dollar National Defense Education Act, to coordinate the space-related efforts of american scientists and the military.due to soviet union's launch of sputnik 1 and Laika. |
| Nikita Khrushchev | emerged as new leader of soviet union, communist and opponent of US. |
| Brinkmanship | Dulls approach, he believed that in order to discourage communist aggression and prevent war "you must take chances for peace, just like you take chances for war." |
| John Foster Dulles | Eisenhower's secretary of state, experienced diplomat, helped create the UN, Brinkmanship was his approach. |
| Mutally Assured Destruction | Many stockpiled nuclear weapons, enough to destroy one another, both sides hoped that this program would prevent the use of nuclear weapons against one another. |
| SEATO | Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, an alliance aiming to prevent the spread of communism. Members implied Pakistan, Thailand,the Philippines, Australia,New Zealand, France, Britain, and US. |
| How Many Troops did US have in Korea on 9/11? | 40,000 troops |
| What year does Eisenhower become president? | 1952, wins 442 to 89 against Adalice Stevenson |
| Korean War | 90,000 troops ended in 1953 |
| Mao Zedong (China) | led communists in a civil war against nationalist Jiang Jieshi. Supported by soviet union |
| Formosa Island | Tiwan |
| Truman | Finished FDR's first term, is relected, dosnt precede to third term |
| Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-Shek) | nationalist leader, fought a civil war against communists led by Mao Zedong, supported by US |
| 38th Parallel | North Korea (communists)(Supported by Soviet Union) and South Korea (Non-Communist)(supported by US) divisioned. |
| Omar Bradly | "Its the wrong war, wrong time, wrong place, against the wrong enemy." |
| McArthor | Fired By Truman, becomes hero, decided to strike on north Koreans. |
| Satillight State | Nations controlled by the Soviet Union. |
| Iron Curtain (buffer Zone) | Churchill stated that this curtain has fallen, east of the curtain was the soviet's escalading control of communist nations, and the other side was non-communist nations. Implied Poland, Czech, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and the eastern part of Germ. |
| Marshall Plan | gave $13 Billion in grants and loans to nations in western europ for the next 4 years |
| The Berlin Airlift | a demonstration of how far the US would go to protect non-communist portions of the world and to contain communism. |
| NATO | The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, formed in 1949, provided military alliance to counter attack soviet expansion. |
| Truman Doctorine | provided poor contries with money, $400 million to Turkey & Greece |
| Policy of Containment | Containing communist nations within their own borders. |
| Soviet Block v Free block | |
| George Kennan | An author, published article called "the sources of soviet conduct", his article presented emphasis of the containment policy. |
| Domino Theory | Accumulating from a single event |
| George Marshall | Secratary OF state |
| Communism | Brings down peoples motivation to succeed, no incentive for hard work |
| Warsaw pact | soviet union and their satellite nations |
| Third World Nations | other nations not involved with warsaw pact nor Nato. |
| Limited War | fighting to achieve only specific goals |
| McCarthyism | meaning extreme, reckless charges, making irresponsible allegations. |
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