Cold War Conflicts - Chapter 26 Flashcards
To understand the international and domestic tensions resulting from the Cold War.
Peacekeeping body of nations
United Nations (UN)
Country dominated by the Soviet Union
Satellite Nation
Effort to block Soviet influence by making alliances and supporting weaker nations
Containment
The division of Europe between free and communist countries
Iron curtain
State of hostility between the Soviet Union and the United States but without military action
Cold War
U.S. policy of sending aid to any nation trying to prevent a Communist takeover
Truman Doctrine
Program under which the United States gave economic aid to rebuild postwar Western Europe
Marshall Plan
Resupply of West Berlin by U.S. and British planes during Soviet blockade of 1948
Berlin Airlift
Defensive military alliance of the United States, Canada, and ten European nations
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Leader of the Nationalist forces in China
Chiang Kai-shek
Leader of the Communist forces in China
Mao Zedong
Island off the coast of China
Taiwan
Imaginary line that divides Korea at 38 degrees north latitude
38th Parallel
War begun when North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950
Korean War
House Committee on Un-American Activities
HUAC
People called before HUAC who did not cooperate
Hollywood Ten
List of people in the Hollywood film industry who were refused jobs because they did not cooperate with HUAC
Blacklist
Former State Department official
Alger Hiss
Activists in the American Communist Party who were executed as spies
Ethel and Julius
Republican Senator who claimed Communists were taking over the federal government
Joseph McCarthy
Term used to refer to tactic of accusing people of disloyalty without producing evidence
McCarthyism
Hydrogen bomb
H-bomb
President of the United States
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Secretary of state
John Foster Dulles
Willingness to go to the edge, or brink, of war
Brinkmanship
Intelligence-gathering, or spy, agency of the United States
CIA
Military alliance of the Soviet Union and its satellite nations
Warsaw Pact
Policy of the United States that it would defend the Middle East against attack by any Communist country
Eisenhower Doctrine
Soviet leader
Nikita Khruschev
Pilot of an American U-2 spy plane
Francis Gary Powers
Downing of a U.S. spy plane and the capture of its pilot by the Soviet Union in 1960
U-2 Incident