Beginning of the cold war 2 Flashcards

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McCarthyism

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making a ton of supported charges of disloyalties without regards to the constitutional rights

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2
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Iron Curtain

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Churchill named the division between Communism and Capitalism

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3
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NATO Warsaw Pact

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Nato
- the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere.
Warsaw Pact
-the Communist version of NATO

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4
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UN Security Council & permanent members

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handles war rises, maintenance of international peace

US, Britain, France, China, and Russia Veto power

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UN General Assembly

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part of the UN all members express feelings, opinion and each country has one vote

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6
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Mao Zedong

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led the communist China

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7
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Chiang Kai-Shek

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Nationalist leader of China

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8
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Characteristics of democracy

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majority rules
responsible citizenship
Government and people…

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9
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Chinese Civil War

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Communists won the war, the nationalist flew to Taiwan. the nationalist lost because he was corrupt and confident

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10
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Korean War & armistice

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South Korea was winning the war until the Chinese enter the war.
The Korean war was ended pretty much where it began (geographic).

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11
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Truman/MacArthur fued

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MacArthur wants to use nuclear weapons on China. Truman wants the war to end as soon as possible.

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12
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Containment

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movement to stop the spread of Communist

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13
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HUAC

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House Un-American Activities Committee
The goal is to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities that suspected of having fascist or communist ties.

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14
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Race for the hydrogen bomb

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once the Russian built their first atomic bomb, us tried to build the hydrogen bomb

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15
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Sputnik

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Russian’s satellite, the first manmade object launch to space.

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