Ike Terms Quiz Flashcards
New Look
Ike’s foreign policy
John foster Dulles
Ike’s Secretary of State
New look defined
Aggressive, in your face attitude toward the USSR
USA = offensive
Try to roll back communism
Encourage e European countries to rebel against the USSR
Saber Rattling
Threaten nations w use of military force if they do not so what you want them to do
Brinkmanship
Push your opponent to the verge of breaking point
To irritate but back off just before opposition is about to react w military force
Domino theory
If one nation falls to the communist, it will cause it’s neighbor to fall to the communist and this will cont until all nations have fallen
Key is to stop the first domino from falling aka south Vietnam
Massive retaliation
Is the USSR aggresses in any way on the USA we will respond w an all out nuclear attack
Détente
Thawing a “cold” relationship between the USA and USSR
Things become more friendly
Khrushchev
Leader of the USSR after Stalin
Peaceful coexistence
The belief that the USA and USSR can live together
Capitalism and communism can exist in the same world
Sputnik
The USSR sends the first satellite in to space
ICBM
Intercontinental ballistic missile
A missile that can be launched in the USSR and hit the USA
U2 and Gary powers
U2= American spy plane Gary= pilot of a U2 shot down in the USSR -- caught us spying
Castro
Led a successful communist rebellion in Cuba in 1959
Ho Chi Minh
Led a successful communist rebellion in Vietnam
Father of communism in Vietnam
Went to war to prevent its communism and failed
