History Exam 4- 1302 Flashcards
Only nation able to rival U.S. after WWII
Russia/ Soviet Union
Containment
Idea that the U.S. will embark on a worldwide emission to stop the spread of communism.
Truman Doctrine
Commits the U.S to fighting communism everywhere it can.
Berlin Blockade
After the war Berlin ,similar to Germany, was broken into 4 blocks/sectors
-Soviets agreed that railroad tracks would bring in supplies to areas in berlin
-Allies set up a currency for West Germany
- Stalin man and cuts all shipments through the railroad
-U.S has to do an 11 month airlift program
Mao Zedong
Becomes the leader of China after the end of the civil war.
NSc-68
A permanent military buildup the U.S. embarks on in applying containment.
Korean War
Korea divided into 2, nothing changes and ends in a crease fire
General MacArthur criticizes Truman publicly and Truman fires him
Reason U.S. backed away from pressuring its European allies to grant their colonies. independence…
American diplomats valued nations like France because of there alliance in the European cold war.
Totalitarianism
The idea that a person or government controls everything in society which keeps it from changing.
-Describes Nazism, fascism, Soviet Union.
Impact of Cold War on American life
immigration policy
expand higher education
scientific research in medicine/computers
lead to end of segregation
Harry Truman’s loyalty review system’s target and why
Targeted homosexuals in government jobs because it argued that they were suspectable to back male because they lacked the manly qualities it took to fight communism.
Operation Wetback
A program utilized by the military to round up illegal aliens in Mexican American neighborhoods and deported them.
How did white supremacists use anticommunist rhetoric?
Accuse attacked groups of being communists
-Ex. African Americans promoting civil rights, jews, and any others they saw as enemy’s.
The “Golden Age of Capitalism” between 1946 and 1960 benefited Americans through…
Most monetary (money) gangs reached ordinary people through rising wages. So most people are making more money
Religious differences during the Cold War
Anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish clash between other Christian denominations is absorbed into a common Judeo-Christian heritage.
Libertarian conservatives and freedom
Their definition of freedom: Individual autonomy, limited government, and unregulated capitalism.
New conservatives trusted the government to do what
regulate personal behavior.
President Eisenhower’s biggest government intervention in the economy
Promoted building of the interstates
-Gets his idea form Hitler’s auto bonds.
“Massive Retaliation”
Declares that any soviet attack on us or an ally will result in us attacking as well.
-We’re not just going to send one, were going to send them all.
“Third World”
Term invented to describe developing nations not allied with the soviet union or the U.S.
-Includes countries who used to be former European colonies