ch. 26 cold war Flashcards
how did george kennan’s “long telegram portray the soviet unionas an american threat?
-communists = agressive and expansionist, aganist independence and freedom
-proposed containment (keeping communism where is already is)
what areas did the truman doctrin focus on when it was created in 1948?
-military and economic assistance to nations fighting communism
-ex. turkey and greece
what was the berlin airlift?
-US dropped supplies to west berlin in defiance
-blockade eventually droppedf
what was NATO?
-collective security against aggression
-USSR responded with warsaw pact
how did the korean war begin?
-WWII occupation: soviet north, USA south
-NSC 68 allowed US to being military spending and weapons advancement as a strategy to fight soviets
-1950 NK communists invaded SK with help of china
NSC 68
-allowed military spending and weapons advancements to begin as a strategy against Soviets
what was the purpose of the house un-american activites comittee?
-investigated potential disloyalty and threats toward the US government
how did mccarthyism represent communist paranois in the US?
-much like communist paranoia is was unfounded
-mccarthy claimed communists were in state department and lied wildly
-threat was not as big as they said on both sides
what event strengthened the fears of communist containment in asia?
-chinese civil war (nationalis forces defeaed by communists under mao zedong, condenmed by US and blocked from UN)
-chinese help NK invade SK in june 1950
what ended the korean war?
-armistice agreed to in 1953
-38th parallel separated NK and SK
how did the cuban missle crisis happen and conclude?
-air recon spoted soviet nuclear weapons in china
-crisis mediated when JFK agreed to not invade cuba and remove missles in turkey
-khrushchev dismantles missle sites
what was the american standard of living like afer WWII?
-prosperous/higher
-rapid production caused rapid purchase (credit card)
-cars and highways (travel, suburbanization)
-buisness class rose—> white collar workers
what facors contributed most to increased economic growth after WWII?
-free trade capitalism
-continued military spending
-rise of the buisness class
wha event caused the “space race”
-soviets sent sputnik into space
-earth orbiting satelite
which job sector increased in the 1950s?
-white collar workers
what is one example of how television revolutionized american public opinion?
-filming of the vietnam war
-caused public to not be in support of it (seemingly no end)
who was ho chi minh?
-a vietnamese communist leader who rid the antion of french colonial presence
wha was he GI bill?
-federal law designed to help veterans returing o society after WWII
-education, unemployment, and housing benefits
how did he sunbelt development lead to political change?
-population growth, suburbanization, migratoin, economic opportunites drove
-lead o shifting of political power from northeast and midwest to south and west
-changes in congressional representation, presedential elecions
wha happened at the bay of pigs incident?
-US sponsored failed coup against castro and communist people in cuba
what important innovaoin did levittown contribute to home construction?
-“assembly line” type consruction (all houses buil he same way, different colors)
what was he gulf of tonkin resolutoin?
-congress gave LBJ authoriy o conduct military operations in veitnam
-instiuted a draft
what was the tet offensive?
-coordinated attack in south vietnamese cities
-psychological loss for US roops more than land loss
-caused even lower public approval for continuing war
wha was vietnamization
-nixon’s policy of turning the war back over to he vietnamese people
