Cold War Terms Flashcards
Long Telegram
George Kennan
Advice for USSR containment
Iron curtain
Term of Winston Churchill
Truman Doctrine
Containment
Financial Aid to Greece and Turkey
- Britain could no longer provide
- threatened by communism
Marshall Plan
Sec. Of State George C Marshall,
Financial aid so populace did not turn to communism
GATT
General Agreement of Trades and Tariffs,
Western nations agree to stimulate more free trade
Reconstruction of Japan
Under leadership of General MacArthur
Japanese democratic constitution
- Women right to vote
- Renouce policy of war
Economic reconstruction
- industrial base
Berlin Blockade
○ US, Brit, Fr, make separate currency for German areas
○ SU cuts off all traffic to retaliate
○ Airlift to provide resources
■ Forced SU (Stalin) to stand down
NATO
○ Mutual defense of each nation
○ West Germany added
Warsaw Pact
USSR version of NATO
Eastern European countries
Chinese Civil War
Win for Mao Zedong and Communists
Truman Administration blocked communist china from UN
NSC-68
Increase in military spending
Korean War
Douglas MacArthur - general
○ Chinese pushback
■ MacArthur wants to retaliate
■ Truman relieves MacArthur for his criticism
SEATO (SE Asia) & CENTO (mid east)
further “NATO’s”
Walter Lippmann
Journalist
Objected to foreign policy
- warned that it was a mistake
Decolonization
○ Free world should not have colonies and empires
○ Interest of liberals and black leaders
○ Dismissed by US in interest of solidarity against communism
■ Better to have a colony with a forced democratic government than a free nation that turns to communism
Totalitarianism
The term that describes aggressive, ideologically driven states that seek to
subdue all of civil society to their control, thus leaving no room for individual
rights or alternative values.
Fair Deal
Domestic reform proposals of the Truman administration; included civil rights
legislation, national health insurance, and repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, but
only extensions of some New Deal programs were enacted.
Operation Dixie
CIO’s largely ineffective post–World War II campaign to unionize southern workers.
Taft-Hartley Act
1947 law passed over President Harry Truman’s veto; the law contained a
number of provisions to weaken labor unions, including the banning of closed
shops (can only employ members of a union).
Dixiecrats
Lower South delegates who walked out of the 1948 Democratic national
convention in protest of the party’s support for civil rights legislation and later formed the States’ Rights Democratic (Dixiecrat) Party, which nominated Strom Thurmond of South Carolina for president.
McCarran-Walter Act
Immigration legislation passed in 1952 that allowed the government to deport
immigrants who had been identified as communists, regardless of whether or not
they were citizens.
McCarthyism
Post–World War II Red Scare focused on the fear of Communists in U.S. government positions; peaked during the Korean War; most closely associated with Joseph McCarthy, a major instigator of the hysteria.
Hollywood Ten
○ A group called before the House Un-American Activities Committee who refused
to speak about their political leanings or “name names”—that is, identify
communists in Hollywood. Some were imprisoned as a res
Army-McCarthy hearings
Televised U.S. Senate hearings in 1954 on Senator Joseph McCarthy’s charges of disloyalty in the army; his tactics contributed to his censure by the Senate.
