Module 21-23 Flashcards
Harry S Truman
33rd President of the United States
Satellite nation
Country dominated by the Solviet Union
Iron Curtain
The division of Europe between free and Communist countries
Cold War
State of histility between the Solviet Union and the US but without military action
Containment
Taking measures to prevent the spread of Communist rule to rule other countries
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Agency created to compile intelligence from the military and state departements and to preform secret operation in forgein countries
Truman Doctrine
US policy of sending aid to any nation trying to prevent a Communist takeover
Marshall Plan
Progra under which the US gave economic aid to rebuild postwar Western Europe
Berlin Airlift
Resupply of West Berlin by U.S. and British planes during SOlviet blockade of 1948
NATO
Defnesive military alliance of the United States, Canada, and ten European nations
Chiang Kai Shek
Leader of the Nationalist forces in China
Mao Zedong
Leader of the Communist forces in China
Taiwan
Island off the coast of China
38th parallel
Imaginary line that divides Korea at 38 degrees north lattitude
Korean War
War begun when North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950
House Un American Activities Committee
Committee of the US House of Representatives that investigated people thought to be Communists
Hollywood Ten
People called before HUAC who did not cooperate
blacklist
List of people in the Hollywood film industry who were refused jobs because they did not cooperate with HUAC
Alger Hiss
Former State Department offical
Ethel and Julius Rosenburg
Activists in the American Communist party who were executed as spies
H bomb
Hydrogen bomb
Arms race
An international contest between countreis seeking a military advantage over each other
Dwight D. Eisenhower
34th Pres of the US
Massive retaliation
Stragtegy that deterred the United States and Solviet Union from lauching a nuclear attack
Mutually assured destruction
Policy that meant that any attack with nuclear force would result in total destrcution of both centuries
John Foster Dulles
Secretary of State
Brinkmanship
Willingness to go the edge of all out war
Warsaw PAct
Military alliance of the Solviet Union and its satelitte nations
Eisenhower Doctrine
Plicy of the US that it would defend the Midlle East against attack by any Communist country
Nikita Khrushchev
Solviet leader
Francis Gary Power
Pilot of an American U2 spy plane
U2 incident
Drowning of a US spy plane and the capture of it pilot by the Solviet Union in 1960
John F. Kennedy
35 Pres of US
Flexibility Response
Policy of using nonuclear weapons to fight a war
Domino Theroy
Theory that one country falling to Communist influence would quikcly lead to other countries in the same area to fall too
Lydon B Johnson
36th PRES of the US
Fidel Castro
Ruler of Cuba
Berlin Wall
Barrier built to keep East Germans from fleing to wEst Berlin
Hot line
Direcet phone between the WHite house and the Krelim
Limities Test Ban Traty
treaty that barred nuclear testing in the atmosphere
Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty
Treaty in which nuclear power agreed not to sell or give nuclear weapons to any other counteis
New Frontier
The name given to Jennedys domestic program
Mandate
An overwhelming show of support by voters
Peace Corps
A program that enlisted bolunteers to help in poor countries
Alliance for progress
A program tha supplied aid to latin America
Warren Commusions
The body that investigated the assiaination of President kennedy
Economic Oppurtunity Act
Created numerous antipoverty measures
Great Society
Name given to Johnson’s domestkc agenda
Medicare and Medicaid
Health benefits for the elferly and poor
Immigration Act of 1965
Established new immigration system that allowed more immigration into the US
Warren Court
The supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren
Reappointonment
The way in which states redraw their election districts
