Cold War Flashcards
Atomic bomb testing by the US
In the summer of 1946 American scientist concluded tests to atomic bombs at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall islands in the Pacific. Nuclear testing on Bikini Atoll continued well into the 1950s and for three years the United States was the only country that had an Atomic weapon
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty organization, when the US Canada and 10 other countries formed an alliance. NATO members agreed to the plan for collective security. The U.S. provide money, ships and leadership, by doing this the U.S. took another step towards breaking there isolationism.
Molotov Plan
It offered aid to countries already allied with the USSR and communism now it was the US versus USSR and trying to get countries to want to help. This fits into the action is taken category, because the USSR is taking a jab at the US by using a plan to promote communism.
Korean War
The war was fought on the Korean peninsula from 1950 to 1953 after ships from communist North Korea, on the Soviet weapons invaded democratic South Korea prompting the U.S. in the land to send forces to support South Korea and fighting unify the Korean Peninsula into democratic nation, which in turn prompt to China to join the war on North Korea side; At the war’s end the peninsula remain divided into two nations
Warsaw Pact
As part of the Cold War and in response to the for Maisch and North Atlantic Treaty organization and agreement signed, the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, hungry Poland, in Romania to establish a military alliance for mutual defense.
NASA
US didn’t want to be behind in the space race. It was like Russia was taking space as its territory. You guys want to catch it’s rush-hour and maybe even be Russian space frontier. This is the action is expanded part because action lately is expanded to space.
U2 spy shot down
During the Cold War, both super power used spies and other covert minutes to gather info about or influence events and other countries.Francis flight was a covert CIA operation. At times, CIA agents also bride foreign leaders, supportive political parties, or funded supposedly independent radio stations
HUAC
All of the people above were tried as communist Lawson, Seeger, Robeson and blacklisted. Some thoughts by these people; Sears used to state laws are unjust.
1950 in the Senate
I had to enter five names of Communists in the Senate home. Now I have 100, 50, five I will only seen one and all guy who can’t do anything so everyone ignores him.
Stalin’s speech
Stalin’s speech criticizes capitalism and suggests that communism sure please capitalism. George Cannon a list of Matt Moscow, sent the Long Telegram.it helped shape the US foreign-policy in the decades to come. Keenan describes the Soviets is mean committed genetically to believe that the US system and way of life must be destroyed.
