cold war/vietnam Flashcards
(28 cards)
churchill, FDR, stallin creat 4 sections of germany, USSR promises free election in germany
yalta conference
a political, ideological, and military barrier that separated Western Europe from Eastern Europe, particularly the Soviet Union and its communist allies, during the Cold War
iron curtain
stop the spread of communism in countries that already arn’t
containment
US $ to aid countries to buy weapons to fight against communism
truman doctrine
US $ to aid countries to rebuild after WW2
to support themselves, look to USA as a friend
Marshall plan
stallin stops all traffic in/out of w. berlin - cuts off all supplies (food, fuel medicine)
-6/1948
berlin blockade
20 days later- USA/England fly supplies from W. Germany to W. Berlin for 15 months
berlin airlift
democracy v. communism- rather than meet on battlefields -USA/USSR
cold war
a political and military alliance of 32 countries from North America and Europe.
NATO
a military alliance of communist nations in Eastern Europe
warsaw pact
married couple accused for spying for the soviet union by passing atomic bomb secrets during the cold war
they were convicted of espionage and executed in 1953 for spying, their case increased cold war fears and helped fuel the red scare
rosenberg case
campaign accusing americans of being communists -3 million people were accused
macarthyism
US committee that invesigated americans suspected with communism
HUAC
lose your job, fined/jailed
blacklist
express severe disapproval of (someone or something), especially in a formal statement.
censured
a series of federal laws that provide funding and guidance for the construction and maintenance of the national highway system
-holiday inn/mcdonalds
-interstate 15ft bridges
federal highway act
a competition between nations for superiority in the development between the US and USSR
-education
arms race
each of a series of Soviet artificial satellites, the first of which (launched on October 4, 1957) was the first satellite to be placed in orbit.
sputinik
U.S. government agency that is responsible for science and technology related to air and space.
NASA
1946-1964, huge group born
(h/c)- WW2
baby boomers
agency that sends American volunteers to countries around the world to promote world peace and friendship through global service- stop communism from spreading
peace corps
who turns cuba communist
fidel castro
special forces created by the usa that engages in guerilla warfare and unconventional ways
green beret
we try to assassinate castro but it backfires, Cuba asks USSR for help a 13-day standoff in October 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union, during which the two superpowers came close to nuclear war
and JFK starts a quarentine (not an act of war)
cuban missile crisis
