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Cold war (David made
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Who attended both the Yalta Conference and the Postdam Conference? | Churchill and Stalin, Know they did come to some agreements despite their differences in vision |
| Which contributed to Stalin's distrust of the United States? | Truman's refusal to disclose war related information to an Alli, like the fact that america had a ABomb |
| How was Europe after WWII Divided? | Soviets seized control over Eastern Europe and East Germany |
| What policy did america shift away from after WW2 | Isolationism |
| What replaced the League of Nations? | United Nations |
| What was a large scale humanitarian relief effort to help Western Europe? | Marshall Plan |
| What doctrine was passed by congress to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion (Containment) | truman doctrine |
| What stopped West Berlin from falling to the control of the soviet union? | Berlin Airlift |
| What nation was divided into 4 sectors temporary after the war? | Germany |
| What part of Berlin was the American (Capitalistic) part | West Berlin |
| The Berlin Airlift was an attempt by U.S., British and French pilots to deliver food and other supplies to West Berliners and showed America's commitment to what cold war policy? | Containment |
| What military alliance did the U.S. and 28 other nations join, pledging to come to eachothers defence in an act of aggression by the Soviet Union | NATO |
| What year did the USSR launch sputnik? | 1957 |
| What was the Warsaw Pact? | The Communist Alliance ("Communist NATO") |
| What year did Stalin die, and Korean war end in a stalemate? | 1953 |
| Who replaced Stain when he died? | Nikita Khurshchev |
| Year Korean war started | 1950 |
| What was the Rosenberg Trial and when was it? | 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg tried and executed for selling atomic Bomb secrets to USSR (Had sons Michael and Robert Meeropol, and they pleaded innocent, probably do not need to know this) |
| Year Eisenhower became president | 1952 |
| Year US launches Explorer 1, NASA Formed this year | 1958 |
| Year Fidel Castro got into power, year Khrushchev visited US., and year kitchen debates happen | 1959 |
| What was the kitchen debates? | Vice President Nixon and Khrushchev debate in an American kitchen exhibit about their 2 nations |
| Why was Korean war fought and what year? | Containment, 1950-1953 |
| What is the border in Korea, and what side is communist? | 38th parallel, has a DMZ(De-Militarized Zone), North is communist, South is Capitalist. |
| Leaders of USSR in cold war | Stalin, Khrushchev, Gorbachev |
| Presidents of Us during cold war? | Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Charter, Regan |
| Major Conflicts between USSR and US | U-plane shot down, Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, Sports Competitions, Vietnam, Korea |
| Cold war start and end | 1945-1990, 45 years |
| Yalta Conference | Feb. 1945 (Churchill, Stalin, and FDR meet) Discuses post war plans, Obvious Stalin had a different Agenda. |
| Postdam Conference | Big 3, for America Truman comes, Discuses post war plans, Truman anticipates trouble. (July 1945) |
| Satellite nations | Eastern nations under soviet rule, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and East Germany. |
| Iron Curtain Speech | made by Winston Churchill about imaginary border between West and East Europe (Missouri 1946) |
| Who Made the first move in the Korean War? | North Korea (1950) |
| What port was South Korea pushed into by september | port of Pusan |
| Who was the Military general in charge of UN forces, later fired by Truman in Korean war | McArther |
| Reason North Korea was able to get back to the 38th parallel by July 1953 | South pushed to close to China, and china started helping the North |
| How did the Korean war end? | Stalemate |
| Loyalty Review Board | effort made by Truman in 1947 , screening process |
| HUAC | (The House Un-American Activities Committee) Believed Communist put in propaganda in films. Failed to turn up evedence |
| Hollywood Ten | 10 people who did not testify, they believed its was unconstitutional what was happening, got blacklisted, carers trashed |
| Blacklist | list of people who believed to have communist intentions. |
| Joseph Mccarther | Attacked people who he believed had communist ties, was seen to be a mess on national TV, lost credibility |
| McCarthyism | practice of investigating and accusing persons in positions of power without much evidence, (Negative) |
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