Chapter 26 Flashcards
Policy of confronting USSR to limit Soviet expansion and influence
Containment
Implementation of containment; US would support any nation facing communist threat
Truman Doctrine
Created department of defense national security council, and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
National Security Act of 1947
Marshall Plan
Aid to rebuild Western Europe
Use of cargo plans to supply Berlin, blockaded by Stalin in 1948
Berlin Airlift
Political and military alliance against the USSR
North Atlantic Treaty organization (NATO)
Blueprint for Cold War; called for a military buildup, development of hydrogen bomb, and global containment
National Security Paper (NSC-68)
GI bill
Bonus paid immediately to WWII veterans; sent millions to college
Four-way election; southern Democrats nominate a “Dixiecrat” candidate
Election of 1948
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
“Red-hunting” house committee
Baseless claims of communist subversion made by Sen. Joseph McCarthy
McCarthyism
Committed Us to policy of intervention in the Middle East
Eisenhower Doctrine
US arms industry, whose growing influence worked Eisenhower
Military-Industrial Complex
How did the U.S. government’s national security policy fight in the Cold War against communism?
Containment, NATO, departments created by the National Security Act of 1947, and recommendations of NSC-68 are all examples.
What accelerated changes to the US national security policy?
Korean War
