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Cold War
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Cold War | the state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990. |
| Iron Curtain | the notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989. |
| Containment | A United States foreign policy doctrine adopted by the Harry S. Truman administration in 1947, operating on the principle that communist governments will eventually fall apart as long as they are prevented from expanding their influence. |
| Berlin Wall | A United States foreign policy doctrine adopted by the Harry S. Truman administration in 1947, operating on the principle that communist governments will eventually fall apart as long as they are prevented from expanding their influence. |
| Yalta Conference | The Big three met at Yalta in Feb. 45 to discuss the Pot-War World USSR gets Poland with promise of free elections USSR promised to enter war against Japan Germany split into 4 zones. |
| Domino Theory | The idea that if one key nation in a region fell to control of communists, others would follow like toppling dominoes. The theory was used by many American leaders to justify American intervention in the Vietnam War. |
| Truman Doctrine | was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was first announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947 and further developed on July 12, 1948 when he pledged |
| Marshall Plan | program by which the United States gave large amounts of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after the devastation of World War II. It was proposed by the United States secretary of state, General George C. Marshall. |
| Civil Defense | or civil protection is an effort to protect the citizens of a state (generally non-combatants) from military attacks and natural disasters. Air raid drills, blackout drills, duck and cover, fallout shelters |
| Baby Boom | used to identify a massive increase in births following World War II. Baby boomers are those people born worldwide between 1946 and 1964, the time frame most commonly used to define them. |
| McCarthyism | was the practice of investigating and accusing persons in positions of power or influence of disloyalty, subversion (working secretly to undermine or overthrow the government), or treason. |
| Atomic Testing in Nevada | Gov. said no danger children living downwind were beginning to develop leukemia. As time passed, people in affected areas suffered high rates of cancer, The news media and the federal government continued to deny that nuclear testing was a health hazard. |
| Nikita Khruscshev | was a Soviet statesman who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union , and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers. was responsible for the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union. |
| John F. Kennedy | John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. |
| Joseph McCarthy | was an American politician who served as U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. |
| Fidel Castro | was a Cuban politician and communist revolutionary who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008. |
| Korean War | also called the Korean conflict, fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). The war began in 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea. |
| Vietnam War | was a Cold War conflict pitting the U.S. and the remnants of the French colonial government in South Vietnam against the indigenous but communist Vietnamese independence movement, the Viet Minh, following the latter's expulsion of the French in 1954. |
| Bay of Pigs | In 1961 the United States sent trained Cuban exiles to Cuba to try and overthrow Fidel Castro's government. The invasion is considered part of the Cold War because the United States was trying to prevent communism from taking hold in the Americas. |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba; one of the “hottest” periods of the cold war. |
| GI Bill | Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944 Provided free college, re-enrollment in high schools, vocational. Loans for houses Brief living expenses if job not found Help finding jobs. Created middle class. 8 million WWII veterans |
| Interstate Highway System | Largest Public Works project in US history Led to urban sprawl aided suburbs destroyed down towns. Today, what geo. Feature have they replaced? Auth. By Fed. Hwys Act of 1956 |
| Space race | 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for supremacy in spaceflight capability. Included satellites and space travel, animals in space, the moon and later exploration of Mars |
| National Defense Education Act | which increased funding for education at all levels, including low-interest student loans to college students, with the focus on scientific and technical education. |
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Elijah Decker