Beginning of the cold war 2 Flashcards
McCarthyism
making a ton of supported charges of disloyalties without regards to the constitutional rights
Iron Curtain
Churchill named the division between Communism and Capitalism
NATO Warsaw Pact
Nato
- the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere.
Warsaw Pact
-the Communist version of NATO
UN Security Council & permanent members
handles war rises, maintenance of international peace
US, Britain, France, China, and Russia Veto power
UN General Assembly
part of the UN all members express feelings, opinion and each country has one vote
Mao Zedong
led the communist China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Nationalist leader of China
Characteristics of democracy
majority rules
responsible citizenship
Government and people…
Chinese Civil War
Communists won the war, the nationalist flew to Taiwan. the nationalist lost because he was corrupt and confident
Korean War & armistice
South Korea was winning the war until the Chinese enter the war.
The Korean war was ended pretty much where it began (geographic).
Truman/MacArthur fued
MacArthur wants to use nuclear weapons on China. Truman wants the war to end as soon as possible.
Containment
movement to stop the spread of Communist
HUAC
House Un-American Activities Committee
The goal is to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities that suspected of having fascist or communist ties.
Race for the hydrogen bomb
once the Russian built their first atomic bomb, us tried to build the hydrogen bomb
Sputnik
Russian’s satellite, the first manmade object launch to space.
