Cold Flashcards

(47 cards)

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Why is called a Cold War?

A

No large-scale fighting

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2
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Capitalism

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Buy/sell what you want

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3
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communism

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Gov. Fully controlled

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4
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containment

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US must take aggressive steps to contain communist expansion

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5
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Iron Curtain

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Line across Europe where NATO and Warsaw touched

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6
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NASA

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national Aeronautic Space Administration

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7
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Domino Theory

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Once one country falls, they all will

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8
Q

US Leader when Cold War started

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Truman

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9
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Soviet leader when Cold War started

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Joseph Stalin

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10
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Fidel Castro

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Cuban Leader during Cold War

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11
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3rd President in Cold War

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Kennedy

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12
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Nikita Khrushchev

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Took over after Stalin

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13
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Eisenhower

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US war general, 2 president in Cold War

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14
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William Levitt

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introduced mass-produced housing based on navy model

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15
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Who created containment

A

George Kennan

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16
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Who took over after Jfk

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LBJ

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17
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Mao Zedong

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Communist leader of mainland china

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18
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chaing Kai-shek

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Taiwan bound leader of the kuomintang

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19
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general MacArthur

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sent to push Koreans behind 38th parallel, get fired for crossing a river that was too far

20
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Lee Harvey Oswald

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killed Kennedy

21
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Jack Ruby

22
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Truman doctrine

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Truman’s Domestic policy, our right to help countries threatened by communism

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Marshall Plan

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US give economic aid to European countries threatened by communism

24
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Berlin Airlift

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Ppl in Berlin were feeling hopeless so US dropped supplies

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NATO
North-Atlantic Treaty Organization
26
Warsaw Pact
Soviet Union, Opposing NATO
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Nuclear arms race
SU and US competing about arms
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Cuban Missile crisis
USSR had a misslie ready to shoot us in cuba, but we told them that we had one in turkey reafy to shoot them, and Kennedy kept us out of war
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bay of pigs
US trained Cuban immigrants by CIA to overthrow Castro
30
Space Race
US and USSR competing to send stuff to space
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Sputnik/Vanguard
Sputnik was first thing is space sent by SU, Vanguard was US’s try but it failed; nickname “flopnick”
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HUAC
House Un-American Activities Committee, created by Hollywood 10
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McCarthyism
thought that everyone was secretly communist, create my McCarthy
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the Rosenberg s
First couple sent to death penalty, executed for alleged atom spying
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Klaus Fuch
Double-Agent
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Hollywood 10
Group of famous people who got blacklisted, created HUAC
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Beat Genereation
writers who were “beat with the current industrial state”
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GI bill
Gave $ to GIs
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McCarran Act
Required all communists to register/provide a list of members
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Suburbs
Residential area on fringes of major cities, 75% of new house construction
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Baby boom
1946-1964, higher incomes and better healthcare, causes 20% increase of babies
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Election of 1948
Dewey(R) Truman (D) (wins) Thurmond (Dixiecrat) Wallace (progressive)
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Election of 1952
Eisenhower (R) (wins) Stevenson (D)
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election of 1960
JFK(D) (wins), VP is LBJ Nixon (R)
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massive Retaliation
A country threatened to use nuclear weapons in response to an act of aggression by an enemy
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Korean leader in the north
Kim il Sung
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Korean leader in the south
Syngman Rhee