Chapter 25 pt.2 Flashcards

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Loyalty-Security Program

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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

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HUAC

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an investigative committee made in 1938, this sparked the Red Scare because people started connecting movie industries with communists.

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Alger Hiss and Richard Nixon

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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.

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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

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they were convicted of passing atomic secretes to the Soviet Union and were later executed. This sparked McCarthy’s alegations

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New Look, the arms race, and “massive retaliation”

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  • 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
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Third World countries

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term used for countries after WWII that were no aligned in the west capitalist countries led by the united states,,,

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Ho Chi Minh’s attempt at liberation of Vietnam and the Domino Theory

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  • HCM was a communist.

- Eisenhower’s theory that all non-communists govts would fall like dominoes.

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Ngo Dinh Diem

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anti-communist catholic and became Vietnam president, but eventually lost to Ho Chi Minh. Diem eventually got aid money and military advisors.

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The Suez Crisis

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Nasser took over the Suez Canal and thanks to american inventions military action failed .

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Kennedy-Nixon TV debates

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4 televised debates, Nixon won on the radio, but Kennedy won on TV. Kennedy won by a slim shot and enjoyed the debates.

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Fidel Castro and The Bay of Pigs

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a failed U.S sponsored invasion on of Cuba by anti-Castro forces who wanted to overthrow castro.

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Belin Wall construction

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The communist built the wall to keep away anymore threats by East German and had guards ready to shoot at any time.

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The Cuban Missile Crisis

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nuclear standoff between Soviet and U.S when the Soviets threatened to let out a nuclear missiles in Cuba.

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