Cold War Part I- Mrs. Goldberg's Class
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For anyone who needs to study the Cold War Part I vocabulary for Mrs. Goldberg's class.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Dwight Eisenhower | United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany. |
| John Kennedy | President during 1961-1963. President during Cuban Missile Crisis. Strong image icon. Creator of Civil Rights Act. |
| Nikita Khrushchev | Leader of the USSR during the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
| Fidel Castro | Led the revolution of Cuba and took control of Cuba in 1959. Resented past dictators. Made Cuba communist |
| Douglas MacArthur | American general, who commanded allied troops in the Pacific during World War II. |
| Matthew Ridgeway | Replaced the original Korean general. Hired by Truman. |
| Syngman Rhee | Korean leader who became president of South Korea after World War II and led Korea during Korean War. |
| Kim Il Sung | Communist leader of North Korea; his attack on South Korea in 1950 started the Korean War. He remained in power until 1994. |
| Korean War | A war between North and South Korea. |
| 38th parallel | Line of latitude that separated North and South Korea. |
| Inchon | A battle in the Korean War (1950). |
| Pusan | A city in southeastern South Korea on the Korean Strait, where Douglas MacArthur landed his Marines. Temporary capital of South Korea. |
| Panmunjon | Truce talks started at Panmunjon and dragged on for 2 yrs. The fighting still continued. Place where North and South Korea signed the ceasefire in 1953. |
| Mao Zedong | Chinese communist leader (1893-1976). |
| Chiang Kai- Shek | Leader of the Nationalist Party after 1925. |
| Joseph McCarthy | United States politician who unscrupulously accused many citizens of being Communists (1908-1957). |
| Neil Armstrong | 1st person to walk on the moon. U.S. Apollo 11. July, 1969. His famous words - "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." |
| Yalta Conference | 1945 Meeting with US president FDR, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post war. |
| Iron Curtain | A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eatern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region. |
| containment | American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world. |
| Truman Doctrine | President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism. |
| Berlin Airlift | Airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin. |
| Marshall Plan | A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952). |
| United Nations | An organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security. |
| satellite nation | Country that is dominated by a more powerful nation. |
| brinkmanship | The policy of pushing a dangerous situation to the brink of disaster (to the limits of safety). |
| NATO | An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security. |
| Warsaw Pact | An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO. |
| People's Republic of China | Communist government of mainland China. Proclaimed in 1949 following military success of Mao Zedong over forces of Chiang Kai- Shek. |
| Republic Of China | A government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai- Shek after the conquest of mainland China by the communists led by Mao Zedong. |
| House Un- American Activities Committee (HUAC) | Committee in the House of Representatives founded on a temporary basis in 1938 to monitor activities of foreign agents. |
| blacklist | A list of 500 actors, writers, producers and directors who were not allowed to work on Hollywood films because of the alleged Communist connections. |
| Dien Bien Phu | The place that the final battle took place that forced the French out of Vietnam. |
| Sputnik/ Explorer | The world's first space satellite. This meant the Soviet Union had a missile powerful enough to reach the U.S. |
| Space Race | A competition of space exploration between the United States and Soviet Union. |
| Berlin Wall | A wall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West. |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | The 1962 confrontation bewteen US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba. |
| U2 Spy Plane Incident | Hurt relations between USSR and USA after what appeared to be an easing in the tensions of the Cold War. |
| Francis Gary Powers | Pilot of an American U-2 spy plane. |
| Julius and Ethel Rosenberg | Arrested in the Summer of 1950 and executed in 1953, they were convicted of conspiring to commit espionage by passing plans for the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. |
| Bay Of Pigs Invasion | Failed invasion of Cuba in 1961 when a force of 1,200 Cuban exiles, backed by the United States, landed at the Bay of Pigs. |
| GI Bill Of Rights | Law Passed in 1944 to help returning veterans buy homes and pay for higher education. |
| NASA | An independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight. |
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