Cold War, Korean War, Cuban Missile, Vietnam & War at Home
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 cold war | -political and economic confrontation between soviet union and us that dominated world affairs -no actual fighting |
| united nations | -unlike the league of nations; senate approved membership to this newly organized group of central powers |
| international monetary fund | -international organization established to assist nations in maintaining stable currencies |
| world bank | -established to assist governments in economic development |
| berlin blockade/airlift/wall | -soviet blockade of land access to us, gb, and french occupation zones in berlin -russia showing its power -us dropped supplies to the blockaded zones -showed russia that the us had power as well -russia built a wall around the western sectors of berlin, left access route to west germany open -showed the divide between the powers -confirmed churchill's "iron curtain" -kept the communist side from seeing how the other side was thriving so they did not know how bad their conditions were |
| containment | -resisting further expansion of the Soviet bloc through diplomacy and military action |
| detante | -change from failed policy of containment -striving for agreement and peace with the communist world |
| nato | -military alliance of the us, canada, and 10 european nations to protect europe against possible soviet aggression |
| warsaw pact | -in response to nato -military alliance of the soviet union and the communist nations of europe |
| huac | -house un-american activities committee -originally intended to ferret out pro-Fascists, it later investigated "un-American propaganda" that attacked constitutional government |
| mccarthysim | -anti-communist attitudes and actions associated with senator joe mccarthy -mccarthy claimed to have a list of communist people in the government: lacked evidence -public opinion turns on him when he accuses marshall and is taken to court and couldn't back up any of his claims |
| hollywood | -targeted by huac because it had the power to influence the public through movies/tv/radio -hollywood 10: major hollywood producers etc. jailed after refusing to discuss their past political associations |
| alger hiss | -a worker in the state department, was accused of being associated with a former Communist -represented the government trying to find and expel communists |
| rosenbergs | -a couple working on the manhattan project, accused of being spies for the soviet union -excecuted |
| second red scare | -us seeking out possible communists in the us government -exec order 9385 -huac -alger hiss -rosenbergs -mccarthyism |
| space race | -soviet union won by launching the world's first artificial satellite -showed the superiority of communism -led to american schools increasing science and math courses -led to national defense education act: expanded college and postgrad education |
| jfk's inaugural address | -"ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country" -hoped to inspire the public to get involved and help the country |
| jkf letters | -letters sent to jfk from the ussr before the cuban missile crisis -jfk ignores the second responding to the first in agreement that both ussr and the us would remove the weapons in cuba/turkey and not tell the us public that they were there |
| iron curtiain | ... |
| domino theory | -us thought that because north vietnam was communist, that all of the other countries around would be communist as well -us thought that if north vietnam stopped being communist, then it would stop the spread of communism |
| 38th parallel | -divide between north and south korea -before and after the korean war |
| general douglas macarthur | ... |
| cuban missile crisis | -us u2 planes discover that ussr had nuclear weapons pointed at the us in cuba -us had nuclear weapons in turkey pointed at ussr -neither side could do anything without the threat of nuclear war -options were invasion, air strike, demand removal of missiles, or naval blockade |
| quarantine (naval blockade) | -us solution to the cuban missile crisis -would expose the russian weapons in cuba because it would give the us right to search russian boats |
| bay of pigs | -anti-castro cubans in cuba wanted to overthrow the cuban government (backed by the us) -unsuccessful takeover - brought shame on the us |
| u2 spy planes | -spy plane incident: soviets shot down american spy plane -eisenhower took responsibility, hoping to reassure the soviets -soviets responded with renewed distrust and hostility -set back efforts at disbarment for years -russia did not sign the test ban treaty |
| north vs. south vietnam | -north = communist -south = run by us puppet dicator |
| diem | -us puppet dictator of southern vietnam |
| tet offensive | -vietcong goes on a rampage in south vietnam during the tet festival -gets attention from the us army and a lot of communist soldiers end up being killed -shows communist failure but also that the us is capable of mass killing as well |
| my lai massacre | -us massacre on vietnamese civilians in the village of my lai -led to war opposition at home |
| protests | -following the tet offensive and the my lie massacre -mass opposition to the war in vietnam |
| gulf of tonkin | -us ship near vietnam is bombed by the north vietnamese -gives us justification to enter the war |
| vietcong | -southern vietnamese who fled north because they supported communism but then returned south to spread communist ideals through revolution |
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