Cold War Asseseement Flashcards
What were trumans bigges challenges
Containing communism
Restoring the AMERICAN economy
Who is Harry S Truman
The president after Franklin D Roosevelt’s death who ask Roosevelts widow Eleanor whether there was anything he could do for her but really he was the one who was in trouble
What were the United Nations
Most visible system of these helps with the United Nations. On April 25, 1940 550 nations met in San Francisco to establish this new peacekeeping body. After two months of debate on June 26, 1945 the delegates signed the charger establishing the UN
Who were the big three
United States Great Britain and the Soviet union
Who were the satellite nations
Communist governments in Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, hungry, romania, and Poland: countries dominated by the Soviet Union
How did containment begin to guide the Truman administration’s foreign-policy
Europe was not divided into two political regions, a mostly democratic Western Europe and communist Eastern Europe
What does the phrase Iron Curtain mean
It came to stand for the division of Europe. When Stahelin heard about the speech he declared in no uncertain terms that Churchel’s words were a call to war
What was the Cold War
A conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union in which I donation directly confronted the other on the battlefield. The cold war would dominate global affairs and US foreign-policy from 1945 until the break up of the Soviet Union in 1991
What was the Truman doctrine
He declared that it must be the policy of United States to support free peoples were resisting attempted subjuwtiont by armed minorities or by outside pressures
Who was George Marshall and what was the Marshall plan
The Secretary of State to proposed that the United States provide aid to all European nations that needed it saying that this move was directly not against any country or doctoring but against hunger poverty desperation and chaos
What was the Berlin airlift
The resulting situation is dire in an attempt to break the blockade, American and British officials started the Berlin airlift to fly food and supplies into West Berlin.
What was the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty organization)
Western European nations joined the United States and Canada to form a difference military alliance called NATO they agreed to support each other in defense of a communist attack
What was the house un-American activities committee
HU a C first made headlines in 1947 when it began to investigate communist influence in the movie industry. The committee believe that Communists were sneaking propaganda into films
Who were the Hollywood 10
10 unfriending witnesses were called to testify but refused. These men known as the Hollywood 10 decided not to cooperate because they believe that the hearings were unconstitutional. Because the Hollywood 10 refuse to answer these questions they were sent to prison
It was the blacklist
In response to the earrings Hollywood executives instituted a blacklist, list of people who make condemned for having hominis background people were blacklisted had their careers ruined because they could know no longer find work
