Cold War! Flashcards
Kitchen Debate
The Kitchen Debate was a series of impromptu exchanges (through interpreters) between then U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at the opening of the American National Exhibition at Sokolniki Park in Moscow on July 24, 1959. For the exhibition, an entire house was built that the American exhibitors claimed anyone in America could afford. It was filled with labor-saving and recreational devices meant to represent the fruits of the capitalist American consumer market. The debate was recorded on color videotape, a new technology pioneered in the U.S., and Nixon made reference to this fact; it was subsequently rebroadcast in both countries.
American National Exhibition
in moscow it was a showcase of american consumer goods and leisure equipment
Eisenhower Doctrine
Jan. 5, 1957), in the Cold War period after World War II, U.S. foreign-policy pronouncement by President Dwight D. Eisenhower promising military or economic aid to any Middle Eastern country needing help in resisting communist aggression. The doctrine was intended to check increased Soviet influence in the Middle East, which had resulted from the supply of arms to Egypt by communist countries as well as from strong communist support of Arab states against an Israeli, French, and British attack on Egypt in October 1956. Eisenhower proclaimed, with the approval of Congress, that he would use the armed forces to protect the independence of any Middle Eastern country seeking American help. The Eisenhower Doctrine represented no radical change in U.S. policy; the Truman Doctrine had pledged similar support to Greece and Turkey 10 years earlier. It was a continuation of the U.S. policy of containment of or resistance to any extension of the Soviet sphere of influence.
Alliance for Progress
work on a program designed to prevent the spread of anti-americanism and communist insurgencies. in Latin America which was in 1961after Kennedy signed the Charter of Punta del Este which established the Organization of American OSciety(OAS) and the Alliance for programs, the alliance offered $20billion in loans to OAS countries for democratic development initiatives.
National Liberation Front(NLF)
1960 supported by Ho Chi MInh’s communist regime in NOrth Vietnam gained the upper hand and it was the fall of Vietnam
Bay of PIgs
US attack on Cuba on April 17, 1961, but it ultimately failed because Castro was expecting it and defended Cuba properly
Berlin Wall
wall by Khrushchev to stop east germans from moving to west berlin it was made on August 13, 1961, JFK later said he would defend west berlin til the end.
Cuban Missile Crisis
SOviet put nuclears in cuba so JFK had a quarantine like a bockade but not because it wwsant an act of war and this way soviets couldnt pt misslile sinto cuba
