cold war Flashcards
the first UN human rights treaty
the Convention of the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
the five permanent members of the Security Council
Britain, France, US, China, & the Soviet Union
the five permanent members of the Security Council had what power
Veto power
the conference where FDR, Churchill, and Stalin met at (also a resort on the black sea)
Yalta
after reaching a compromise on Poland, the three leaders agreed on
the Declaration of Liberated Europe
the era between 1946 and 1990
the Cold War
the first US delegate to the UN
Eleanor Roosevelt
the conference where Truman first learned of the successful atomic bomb tests
Potsdam conference
American policy to keep the spread of communism
containment
separated Eastern Europe and Western Europe
the Iron Curtain
gave European nations American aid to rebuild their economies
the Marshall plan
the US zone in Germany created as the Federal Republic of Germany, or
West Germany
the Soviet zone became the German Democratic Republic, or
East Germany
symbolized American determination to contain communism and not give in to Soviet demands
the Berlin Airlift
was founded as a mutual defense alliance in April 1949
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
the Soviet’s created a military alliance in Eastern Europe known as the
Warsaw Pact
a systematic attempt to overthrow a government by using persons working secretly from within
subversion
in July, 1951, peace negotiations began at _______
Panmunjom
the DMZ separating North and South Korea is at the
38th parallel
marked a turning point in the Cold War
the Korean War
in 1952, who was elected president?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
a WAR fought with LIMITED commitment of resources to achieve a LIMITED objective, such as containing Communism
a limited war
on September 15, 1950, MacArthur ordered a daring invasion behind enemy lines at the port of
Inchon
the North Korean and Chinese border
the Yalu River
American general who was fired by president Truman for INSUBORDINATION
MacArthur
in 1954, the US signed defense agreements with ___, ___, ___.
Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan
the US also created the
South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)
the New red scare began in
September, 1945
a systematic attempt to overthrow the government by people working secretly on the inside
a subversion
the director of the FBI was
J. Edgar Hoover
in 1947, Hoover went before the
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
HUAC’s first hearings in 1947 focused on the
Film Industry
the leader of the Screen Actors Guild, and testified that there were communists in Hollywood
Ronald Reagan
who told the HUAC that several government officials were communist spies, including Alger Hiss
Whittaker Chambers
Hiss sued Chambers for
Libel
California representative who convinced his colleagues to continue the hearings to determine who lied
Richard Nixon
the couple who was accused of being communist spies and executed before proof was given
the Rosenbergs
the project where cryptographers broke the the Soviet Union’s spy code, and proved the Rosenbergs guilty
project “Venona”
required its faculty to take loyalty oaths and fired 157 people who refused
the University of California
required union leaders to take oaths saying that they were not communists
the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947
required union leaders to take oaths saying that they were not communists
the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947
proclaimed that communists were a danger at home and abroad and became chairman of the senate subcommittee on investigations in 1953
McCarthy
made it illegal to attempt to reestablish a totalitarian government; communist-related organizations to publish their records and register with US attorney general
the Internal Security Act / McCarran Act
to express a formal disapproval of an action
censure
a policy of threatening a massive response against a communist state
massive retaliation
the practice of pushing a dangerous situation to the limit to force an opponent to back down
brinkmanship
the practice of pushing a dangerous situation to the limit to force an opponent to back down
brinkmanship
to build support among Arabs, ___ ___ ___ offered to help Egypt finance the construction of a dam on the Nile River
Secretary of State Dulles
nations whose economy is primarily agricultural
developing nations
Iranian prime minister who nationalized the anglo-Iranian oil company
Mohammed Mossadegh
in 1956, ___ ___ emerged as the new soviet leader after Stalin’s death in 1953
Nikita Krushchev
president of Egypt who emerged from the Suez crisis as a hero to the arab people
Gamal Abdel Nasser
president of Egypt who emerged from the Suez crisis as a hero to the arab people
Gamal Abdel Nasser
by 1957, Nasser began working with Jordan and Syria to spread _______, which is the idea that all Arab people should be united into one nation
pan-arabism
Eisenhower asked Congress to authorize military force whenever the president thought it necessary, became known as
the Eisenhower doctrine
essentially extended the Truman doctrine and the policy of containment in the middle east
the Eisenhower doctrine
the world’s first space satellites
Sputnik I an Sputnik II
the world’s first space satellites
Sputnik I an Sputnik II
Eisenhower invited Krushchev to visit the US in late 1959, which led to the two agreeing to a summit in
Paris
an informal relationship that some people believe exists between the military and the defense industry to promote greater military spending
military-industrial complex
Eisenhower saw Fidel Castro establish a communist regime in
Cuba
