Ch.26-27 Flashcards
Develop a foreign policy that did not let communism and capitalism were incompatible and that another would certainly follow
Policy of Containment
Developed policy of containment, an american diplomat in Moscow
George Keenan
Winston Churchill speech
“The cold war has begun”
The policy of the Us, to support free peoples who were resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or outside pressures
Truman Doctrine
Berline Blockade
Stalin closed all roads and railroads routes through Germany into W Berlin
Berlin Airlift
Took off every few minutes for 327 days to deliver people in W Berlin
12 nations, they pledged mutual support if they were attacked. greece, turkey, and west germany had joined by 1955
NATO
Investigate government employees and dismiss any that were found to be disloyal
Loyalty Review Board
HUAC
House un-american activities committee
It began to investigate communist influence in the movie industry
Innefctive senator that need a issue to help him be reelected, he began by making unsupported accusations about suspected communist
McCarthyism
Alger Hiss Case
Spy named Whittaker Chambers accused Hiss of spying for the Soviet Union
- chambers had been an editor for time magazine
- hiss had been a member of the state department
- Govt couldn’t prosecute Hiss bc of length of timeframe alleged case
Rosenberg Case
we learned soviets had explodeer an atomic bomb
- we feared a spy had told them bc they didn’t have that tech yet
- Klaus Fuchs admitted giving the soviets info about the bomb
willing to use all of our force-including nukes-against any aggressor nation
Brinkmanship
Though the cold war was a moral crusade against communism
John Foster Dulles
The Soviet Union and the Us would allow flights over each other’s country to guard against surprise nuke attacks
Open skies by eisenhower
Believed communism would take over the world, but he believed in peaceful coexistence
Nikita Kruschev
Worlds first artificial satellite
Sputnik
Francis Gary Powers final person to fly this
U2
Began to build houses with an assembly line production
William levitt, and Henry Kaiser
Viewed as honorable, down to earth, self confident
Harry truman
Sing on Harry Truman desk
“The buck stops here”
Civil Rights
Truman proposed: anti lynching laws, ban on poll taxes, and integration of the armed forces. Congress denied
First black baseball player
Jackie Robinson
Election of 1948
Dem: Harry truman (winner)
Rep: thomas Dewy
Dixicrat: Strom Thrumond
