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Chapter 18 - Cold War Conflicts

Terms in this set (29)

satellite nation
countries dependent upon and dominated by the Soviet Union: Albania, Bulgaria, Czecholslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Poland
containment
creating alliances and support weaker countries to block the spread of Soviets' influence
Cold War
the state of hostility, without direct military conflict, that developed between the US and Soviet Union after World War II
Truman Doctrine
a US policy of providing economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponent
Marshall Plan
the program under which the US supplied economic aid to European nations to help them rebuild after WW II
Berlin airlift
a 327-day operation in which US and British planes flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviets blockaded the city in 1948
NATO
a defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western Euroean coutries, the US, and Canada
Mao Zedong
a Communists leader who led the struggle in the North China
Chiang Kai-shek
China's president
Taiwan
an island to the east of mainland China
38th parallel
imaginary line that bisects Korea at 38 degrees north latitude
Korean War
a conflict between North Korea and South Korea
HUAC
a congressional committee that investigated Communist influence inside and outside the US government in the years following World War II
Hollywood Ten
ten witnesses from the film industry who refused to cooperate with the HUAC's investigation of Communist influence in Hollywood
blacklist
a list of about 500 actors, writers, producers, and directors who were not allowed to work on Hollywood films because of thier alleged Communist connection
Alger Hiss
accused as a spy of the Soviet Union
Ehel and Julius Rosenberg
first US civilians executed for espionage
Senator Joseph McCarthy
the most famous anti-Communist activist
McCarthyism
the attacks by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others on people suspected of being Communists in the early 1950s
H-bomb
the hydrogen bomb, a thermonuclear weapon much more powerful than the atomic bomb
Dwight D. Eisenhower
the president of time when H-bomb was created
John Foster Dulles
the staunchly anti-Communist
brinkmanship
the practice of threatening an enemy with massive military retaliation for any aggression
CIA
Central Intelligence Agency
Warsaw Pact
a military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites
Nikita Khrushchev
leader of the Soviet Communist Party
Eisenhower Doctrine
a US commitment to defend the Middle East against attack by any Communist bountry
Francis Gary Powers
"We...knew that the Russians were radar-tracking at least some of our flights.... We also knew that SAMs [surface-to-air missiles] were being fired at us, that wome were uncomfortably close to our altitude. But we knew too that the RUssians had a control problem in their guidance system.... We were concerned, but not greatly."
U-2 incident
the downing of a US spy plane and capture of its pilot by Soviet Union in 1960
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