Cold War Flashcards
in 1944 delegates from 39 countries met in Washington DC to create
United Nations
has the power to vote on resolutions and choose the non permanent members of security council
General Assembly
responsible for international peace and securiety
Security Council
where FDR Churchill and Stalin met to discuss the plan for post war world
Yalta
the declaration the echoed the Atlantic Charter saying all people can their form of govt
Declaration of Liberated Europe
era of confrontation and competition between nations
Cold War
FDR believed that this was key to world peace
World Trade
First US delegate to join the UN
Eleanor Roosevelt
First UN human rights treaty
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
promoted the inherent dignity of all humans and to end discrimination
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
would give European nations American aid to rebuild their economies
Marshall Plan
proposed the European Recovery Program, or Marshall Plan.
George Marshall
was to help countries resist being taken over by Communist forces.
Truman Docterine
The Communist Countries of Eastern Europe came to be called
satellite nations
separated Eastern Europe from Western Europe.
Iron Curtian
diplomat George Kennan responded to the soviets with what became known as the
Long Telegram
was a message, thousands of words long, explaining Kennan’s views on the Soviets
Long Telegram
soviet zone of Germany
East Germany or German Democratic Republic
bringing 2 million tons of supplies to berlin also symbolized American determination to contain communism
Berlin Airlift
was founded as a mutual defense alliance
NATO
NATO included 12 members
US Canada Britain France Italy Belgium Denmark Portugal Netherlands Luxembourg Iceland
Soviet’s military alliance
Warsaw Pact
Communists established what in china
People’s Republic of China
defeated chinese nationalist fled to an island called
Taiwan
where the US split Korea
38 parallel of latitude
Pres. Truman to send who to South Korea
Macauther
US and South Korean forces were pushed into
Pusan
Macauther ordered daring invasion behind enemy lines at
Inchon
war fought with limited supplies to contain an area
limited war
Truman fired who in combat
Macauther
in 1952 who was elected as president
Eisenhower
turning point in the Cold War
Korean War
Defence agreements with Japan south korea and twian
SEATO
systematic attempt to overthrow a government by using persons working secretly from within
subversion
Told HUCAC that several government spies were former spies or communists
Chambers
Chambers called who a communist spy
Alger Hiss
people who were charged for espionage for spying for the Soviets
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
US and British cryptographers working for a project code named______ cracked soviet code
Venona
Required union leaders to take oaths saying they wasnt communists
taft heartly act
created the FBI
Hoover
communists were danger at home and at a broad and made distributed a booklet accusing Democratic leaders of corruption
McCarthy
act that made it illegal to establish a totalitarian Government in the US,
McCarran Act
head of the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations
McCarthy
McCarthy’s tactics of damaging reputations
McCarthyism
express a formal disapproval of an action
Censure
Eisenhower said what about Nuclear weapons
more bang for the buck
practice of pushing a dangerous situation to the limit to force opponent to back down
Brinkmanship
CIA
central intelligence agency
Iranian prime minister had nationalized the Anglo Iranian Oil Company
Mohammed Mossadegh
after Stalin died who became leader
Khrushchev
emerged from suez canal crisis as a hero to the arab people
Nasser
all arab people should be united into one nation
Pan Arabism
would get congress to authorize the use of military force whenever the president wanted to help middle east resist the communist
Eisenhower Doctrine
worlds first satellites
Sputnik 1 and Sputnik 2
all Arab people should be united into one nation
Pan Arabism
relationship between military and the defense industry to promote military spending
military industrial complex
established communist regime in cuba
Fidel Castro
