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Unit 10
The Cold War Years
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Joseph McCarthy | Senator who claimed he had a list of communists who had infiltrated the federal government. |
| Julius and Ethel Rosenberg | Executed after being convicted of spying and selling atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. |
| Arms Race | Competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union to build up their respective armed forces and weapons. |
| Dwight Eisenhower | 34th President (Republican, 1953 - 1961) who negotiated an armistice to end the Korean War and ordered U.S. troops to integrate Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas. |
| Fidel Castro | Communist leader who gained control of Cuba. |
| Bay of Pigs | 1961 - Failed invasion by a force of Cuban exiles who were trained to land in Cuba and overthrow Castro. |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | 1962 - Confrontation between the US and USSR over Soviet constructed nuclear missile sites in Cuba. |
| John F. Kennedy | 35th President (Democrat, 1961 - 1963) who ordered a quarantine of Cuba to pressure the Soviet Union into negotiations during the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
| The Cold War | Era of military tension, political conflict, and economic competition between the US and USSR - 1945 - 1991. |
| Containment | U.S. Cold War policy to stop any further spread of Soviet influence and communism in the world. |
| NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization | Collective security alliance between the United States, Canada, and Western Europe. |
| Warsaw Pact | Collective security alliance between the Soviet Union and the communist nations of Eastern Europe. |
| Ronald Reagan | 40th President (Republican, 1981 - 1989) who recharged the U.S. economy and increased U.S. defense spending to put economic pressure on the Soviet Union. |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Communist leader of the USSR who withdrew from Afghanistan, decreased defense spending, and created reforms to modernize the USSR and its communist system. |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | 36th President (Democrat, 1963 - 1969) - Created the Great Society to make war against poverty and ordered U.S. troops into combat to defend South Vietnam in 1965. |
| Vietnamization | The gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam as the responsibility for fighting the war is handed over to South Vietnam. |
| China | Entered the Korean War in support of North Korea. |
| Harry Truman | 33rd President (Democrat , 1945 - 1953) who ordered the Berlin Air Lift and sent U.S. troops to defend South Korea in 1950. |
| Richard Nixon | 37th President (Republican, 1969 - 1974) who pursued Vietnamization and then visited China and signed SALT Treaties with the USSR during the Detente period. |
| Vietcong | Communist guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam who fought to overthrow the non-communist government of South Vietnam. |
| Communism | System of the Soviet Union and its allies during the Cold War. |
| Capitalism | Economic system of the United States and its allies during the Cold War. |
| Glastnost | Reform by Mikhail Gorbachev that allowed for limited freedoms of speech and the press in the USSR. |
| Perestroika | Reform by Mikhail Gorbachev that allowed for limited private ownership in the USSR economy. |
| 38th Parallel | Border between North Korea and South Korea that was defined at the end of the Korean War in the 1953 armistice. |
| North Korea | Communist part of Korea that invaded non-communist South Korea in 1950. |
| Domino Theory | Belief by the United States that if South Vietnam fell to communism, other nations in Southeast Asia would follow. |
| North Vietnam | Communist part of Vietnam that supplied and aided the Viet Cong in the Vietnam War |
| Reagan Doctrine | Cold War policy that the U.S. would send aid to groups in foreign nations who were fighting to overthrow communism. |
| Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) | President Reagan's proposal to develop a high tech defense system that was capable of intercepting incoming nuclear missiles that might hit the U.S. |
| Afghanistan | An Islamic uprising against this nation's community government led to a Soviet invasion of it in 1979. |
| Detente | Period of decreased Cold War tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the 1970's. |
| The Tet Offensive | 1968 - Major surprise attack by Vietcong and North Vietnamese forces against South Vietnam - Turning point of the Vietnam War. |
| INF Treaty | 1987 - Agreement by President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev to eliminate both nations' short range and medium range nuclear arsenals. |
| Berlin | President Truman ordered U.S. planes to supply the citizens of West ______________ when it was blockaded by the Soviet Union in 1948. |
| Red Scare | Fear of Americans that communist subversion would destroy democracy and capitalism in the U.S. during the Cold War. |
| Douglas MacArthur | American general who led the 1950 landing of U.S. troops at Inchon and drive North Korean forces out of South Korea. |
| Mao Zedong | Communist leader who gained control of China in 1949. |
| Berlin Wall | Torn down by the German people in 1989. |
| Joseph Stalin | Communist leader of the USSR who ordered a blockade of Berlin in 1948 in response to the formation of a West Germany. |
| Tonkin Gulf Resolution | 1964 - Congress authorized President Lyndon B. Johnson to expand U.S. involvement in South Vietnam. |
| Tonkin Gulf | 1964 - U.S. ships were reportedly fired on by North Vietnamese boats off the coast of North Vietnam. |
| Quarantine | The U.S. naval blockade to halt Soviet ships that were carrying supplies to Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
| HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) | Congressional group that carried out investigations and hearings of suspected communist activities within the U.S. |
| Taiwan | The U.S. backed nationalist government of China, led by Chiang Kai Shek, fled to this island after the Chinese Civil War. |
| United Nations | Voted to defend South Korea from foreign aggression in 1950. |
| Nikita Khrushchev | Communist leader of the USSR who secretly placed nuclear missiles sites in Cuba. |
| 17th Parallel | After Vietnam won its independence from France in 1954 it was split into North Vietnam and South Vietnam along this line. |
| Ho Chi Minh Trail | Transportation route that North Vietnam used to send supplies, weapons, and troops to aid the Viet Cong in South Vietnam. |
| South Vietnam | Non-communist part of Vietnam that fell to communism after it lost the Vietnam War in 1975. |
| War Powers Act | 1973 - Law passed by Congress to restrict the President's authority to use the armed forces without consent from Congress. |
| Mujaheddin | Islamic rebels in Afghanistan who sought to overthrow the nation's communist government - They received aid and arms to fight invading Soviet forces from the U.S. |
| Revolutions of 1989 | Movement that swept across the Eastern European nations within the Iron Curtain to overthrow their communist governments. |
| McCarthyism | The act of making public accusations of disloyalty with insufficient evidence. |
| My Lai | Village in South Vietnam where U.S. troops massacred hundreds of South Vietnamese men, women, and children in a search and destroy mission in 1968. |
| Truman Doctrine | Cold War policy that the U.S. would assist nations that were threatened by Soviet and communist aggression. |
| Berlin Air Lift | U.S. and British pilots flew supplies to West Berlin from 1948 - 1949 during a Soviet blockade of the city. |
| Subversion | When a nation's institutions are overthrown secretly from within. |
| Barbara Johns | Black student who protested school segregation in Farmville (VA) and was represented by the NAACP in Davis v. County Board Prince Edward County. |
| Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 - The Supreme Court overturned "separate but equal" and ruled that schools must be desegregated. |
| Thurgood Marshall | NAACP lawyer who argued the Brown v. Board of Education case before the Supreme Court. |
| Rosa Parks | Civil Rights activist who was arrested for protesting the segregation of the city buses in Montgomery (AL). |
| Montgomery Bus Boycott | Black residents refused to ride city buses from 1955 until they were desegregated in 1956. |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | Leading voice of the Civil Rights Movement who advocated nonviolent protests to bring national support for racial integration. |
| Sit Ins | Black students protested segregation of restaurants and stores by sitting in Whites Only seats in Greensboro (NC). |
| Freedom Rides | Civil Rights activists rode buses across the South to protest segregation of interstate transportation. |
| March on Washington | 1963 - Martin Luther King Jr. led 250,000 protesters to Washington D.C. to call on Congress to pass a Civil Rights Bill. |
| Malcolm X | Civil Rights activist who opposed Martin Luther King Jr.'s strategies and instead promoted Black Nationalism, Black power, Black self defense, and racial separation. |
| Civil Rights Bill of 1964 | Congress banned discrimination based on race, color, sex, religion, or national origin. |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | Congress prohibited all discriminatory voting practices. |
| Great Society | Policies, initiatives, and programs created by the federal government and supported by President Johnson to combat poverty and racial injustice in the U.S. |
| Medicare | Federal program that provides health insurance for persons 65 years of age and older. |
| Medicaid | Federal program that provides health insurance for low income persons. |
| Russian Federation | Established in 1993 after the collapse of the Soviet Union and fall of communism. |
| Reaganomics | Economic policies of President Reagan to grow the U.S. economy by reducing inflation, lower tax rates, and removing economic regulations. |
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