The Cold War Flashcards
What caused the Red Scare?
Soviets detonating atomic bomb
Partisan politics in the US
What happened in the cases of Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs?
Sen. Hiss work for the state department was alleged spy for USSR
Rosenbergs were NYC couple who were accused of passing secrets to USSR, both were executed but were probably not guilty
How did Joe McCarthy gain prominence (what were his tactics)?
He scared people into being paranoid about communism in the gov’t and military etc
How have the views of historians on the cold war evolved?
Early blame was on Soviets, current blame is on both US and Russia
U.S. interventions in Iran, Guatemala and Chile
US helps over through leaders in all
Reagan’s approach toward USSR
Pushes high US defense spending
Gorbachev’s policies
Openness, restructuring, ease tensions with US
Collapse of communism and Soviet Union
Failure of communist economy, burden of cold war military spending
USSR collapses with division of ethics
Post Cold War U.S. foreign policy Kuwait:
US and UN backs Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, but Japan and Saudi-Arabia pay for cost (Bush)
Post Cold War U.S. foreign policy Rwanda:
800,000 die in 100 hundred days and US does not intervene (Clinton)
Post Cold War U.S. foreign policy Bosnia & Kosovo:
Clinton can’t get US Sen. Council to back interventions in former Yugoslavia to stop targeting Muslims, NATO and US use bombing to stop killings
Post Cold War U.S. foreign policy Afghanistan:
UN Security Council and US congress approves of US military action against Taliban, NATO countries support
Post Cold War U.S. foreign policy Iraq:
NATO doesn’t but US congress authorizes force used in invasion of Iraq
Post Cold War U.S. foreign policyLibya:
US, Britain, France support air strikes of Lybia
