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Fields Cold War test
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Cold War | A war without battling |
| superpower | Countries that have the most economic power, biggest armies in the world |
| two main superpowers in the Cold War | USA, Soviet Union |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries |
| United Nations | An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation. |
| Why was NATO created? | To provide collective security against the Soviet Union |
| Warsaw Pact | An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European (communist) nations. This was in response to the NATO |
| Nikita Khrushchev | A Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Communist nation | The Soviet Union believed in a system of shared wealth and resources. |
| Soviet Satellites | Stalin soon put "puppet governments" in place that were controlled by the Soviets |
| containment | stopping communism from expanding to other countries |
| Iron curtain | term for the symbolic division between free countries in western Europe, communist countries in eastern Europe |
| Phillipines Independence | 1946 - US gave Philippines their independence, Ferdinand Marcos became president., made the gov't LESS democratic |
| Satellite nations of the Soviet Union | Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Poland - independent countries under control of the Soviet Union |
| Mao Zedong | Chinese Communist leader from 1949 to 1976. |
| The Marshall Plan | Gave $13 billion to Great Britain, France, Italy and West Germany to help them re-build after WWII |
| Truman Doctrine | President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism (goal was to stop the spread of communism) |
| West Germany | was established when France, Great Britain and the U.S. decided to unify their zones and leave out the Soviet Union. |
| blockade | Closing all ways of transportation. |
| Berlin Airlift | Joint effort by the US and Britain to fly food and supplies into W Berlin after the Soviet blocked off all ground routes into the city |
| Berlin Wall | A wall that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to East Berlin |
| Why was life in East Germany difficult? | B/c it was controlled by a communist government. |
| Korean War | The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea. |
| Outcome of Korean War | stalemate - neither side won |
| Why did the Korean War begin? | North Korea invaded South Korea |
| Inflation | A continuous rise in the price of goods and services |
| GI Bill of Rights | Veterans received benefits that would help them get low interest mortgages for homes, loans for vocational school or college |
| William Levitt/Levittown | Builder that used mass production techniques to build low-cost, mass-produced homes for middle-class families after WWII |
| Connection between growth of suburbs and automobile | More cars were produced at an affordable cost, more people could live father away from their jobs and commute |
| Douglas MacArthur | United States general who served as chief of staff and commanded Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II |
| Truman vs. MacArthur | Both men disagreed on what to do in Korea. Truman wanted to negotiate & MacArthur wanted to drop atomic bombs - Truman felt it could cause another major war. MacArthur publicly criticized Trumans decision. So the President fired MacArthur. |
| Truman's Fair Deal | Spend money |
| HUAC (1938): House Un-American Activities Committee | Established to investigate Communist activities in the US |
| The Rosenberg Trial (1951) | accused of stealing nuclear weapons secrets for the Soviets and were executed because of the fear of Red Scare (thought to be helping communists). |
| Fidel Castro | Communist leader of Cuba |
| Bay of Pigs Invasion | failed invasion of Cuba in 1961 when a force of 1,200 Cuban exiles, backed by the United States, landed at the Bay of Pigs. |
| Peace Corps | Federal program established to send volunteers to help developing nations |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | 1962 crisis that arose between the United States and the Soviet Union over a Soviet attempt to deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba |
| McCarthyism (1950-54) | the practice of making wild accusations that people were communists without proof |
| Arms race | competition to develop and build the biggest weapons in order to prepare for attack |
| Federal Civil Defense Administration | Agency created to establish public fallout shelters and the Emergency Broadcast System to warn citizens of nuclear attack |
| Ho Chi Minh | communist leader of North Vietnam; used guerilla warfare to fight anti-communist, American-funded attacks under the Truman Doctrine; brilliant strategy drew out war and made it unwinnable |
| Space Race | the competition between the US and the USSR to show scientific excellence/superiority in space |
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