Chapter 25 pt.2 Flashcards
Loyalty-Security Program
Truman made this so people could be searched only for good enough reason. this was made so charges would stop being made because of the fear of communism
HUAC
an investigative committee made in 1938, this sparked the Red Scare because people started connecting movie industries with communists.
Alger Hiss and Richard Nixon
Hiss was framed as a communist spy who was giving secret information to Chambers, but denied and Nixon found him guilty and was put into jail for lying on oath.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
they were convicted of passing atomic secretes to the Soviet Union and were later executed. This sparked McCarthy’s alegations
New Look, the arms race, and “massive retaliation”
- defense policy that stepped up the production of hydrogen bombs that went long ranges.
- arms race was another critical feature of the Cold War
- massive retaliation- U.S threat of nuclear response
Third World countries
term used for countries after WWII that were no aligned in the west capitalist countries led by the united states,,,
Ho Chi Minh’s attempt at liberation of Vietnam and the Domino Theory
- HCM was a communist.
- Eisenhower’s theory that all non-communists govts would fall like dominoes.
Ngo Dinh Diem
anti-communist catholic and became Vietnam president, but eventually lost to Ho Chi Minh. Diem eventually got aid money and military advisors.
The Suez Crisis
Nasser took over the Suez Canal and thanks to american inventions military action failed .
Kennedy-Nixon TV debates
4 televised debates, Nixon won on the radio, but Kennedy won on TV. Kennedy won by a slim shot and enjoyed the debates.
Fidel Castro and The Bay of Pigs
a failed U.S sponsored invasion on of Cuba by anti-Castro forces who wanted to overthrow castro.
Belin Wall construction
The communist built the wall to keep away anymore threats by East German and had guards ready to shoot at any time.
The Cuban Missile Crisis
nuclear standoff between Soviet and U.S when the Soviets threatened to let out a nuclear missiles in Cuba.