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The Cold War Begins
Flashcards for Chapter 22 of "The American Vision" CP US History II
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| in this year, the Korean War began | 1950 |
| in this year, the Korean War ended | 1953 |
| Korea was, and still is, divided at this line of latitude | 38th Parrallel |
| the Korean War didn't end with a peace treaty-instead, it ended with this, which is still in effect today | Armistice |
| McCarthy overstepped his bounds when he started going after this organization during his communist witchhunt | Army |
| in 1949, the Soviets finally detonated thier first one of these | Atomic Bomb |
| In addition to dividing Germany, this city was also divided amongst the Allies | Berlin |
| Stalin wanted to force the US out of Berlin with his Blockade, but Truman implemented this to get around it | Berlin Airlift |
| this fashion term came from the Cold War Era | Bikini |
| this is what happened to the movie directors who didn’t cooperate with the HUAC-they weren’t offered many jobs | Blacklisted |
| this was what critics called Ike’s nuclear policy | Brinkmanship |
| eventually, Congress reprimanded McCarthy for his actions, or did this to him | Censure |
| in 1949, this country turned communist when it’s leaders were forced to flee to Taiwan | China |
| MacArthur got himself into trouble in the Korean War when his military maneuvers began threatening this country | China |
| this organization was used to undermine the governments in both Iran and Guatemala during the 1950s | CIA |
| The era from 1946-1990 that was characterized by tension between the US and the USSR | Cold War |
| since we couldn’t wipe out communism on the battlefield, America would follow this policy towards it | Containment |
| At Yalta, the Big Three agreed to this-it meant that all of Europe should be able to choose its own government | Declaration of a Liberated Europe |
| American children participated in these safety measures during the Cold War era | Duck and Cover |
| this policy meant that the US would give money to any Middle Eastern nation fighting against communism | Eisenhower Doctrine |
| most Americans were afraid of the after-effects of a nuclear attack, known as this | Fallout |
| At Yalta, it was agreed to that Germany should be divided into this | Four Zones |
| this former aide to FDR was probably a spy, although the government only convicted him of perjury | Hiss |
| this was the group of movie directors who refused to answer the questions of the HUAC | Hollywood 10 |
| this government committee, aided by J. Edgar Hoover, attempted to root out communists in America | HUAC |
| in 1952, the US got its first thermo-nuclear device-but so did the Soviets only a year later | H-Bomb |
| this was MacArthur’s version of D-Day in Korea | Incheon |
| Former British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, decided that this had set upon Europe | Iron Curtain |
| he was America’s expert on the Soviet Union who wrote the Long Telegram | Kennan |
| this man threatened that he would bury America-or at least capitalism | Khrushchev |
| this thing, lasting from 1950-1953, was a UN military action-not technically an American war | Korean War |
| this document outlined what became known as the policy of containment | Long Telegram |
| Truman implemented this security measure to ensure that federal employees were not communist spies | Loyalty Review Program |
| he was the commander of UN forces in Korea | MacArthur |
| perhaps the best way to fight against communism was though a healthy rebuilt Europe thanks to this plan | Marshall |
| this meant that having nuclear weapons would deter other countries from doing things we don’t like | Massive Retaliation |
| this act required members of the communist party to register with the US government | McCarran Act |
| he made a name for himself by making accusation that there were spies at the highest levels of US government | McCarthy |
| Ike warned Americans about this-it meant the close connection between business and the military | Military Industrial Complex |
| a military alliance that was created by the democratic countries of Western Europe | NATO |
| this future Republican president made a name for himself by going after suspected communists in the HUAC | Nixon |
| The Soviets, truly worried about their own security, really wanted a communist “friendly” government here | Poland |
| At this meeting, Truman, Stalin, and Churchill finalized agreements about German war reparations | Potsdam |
| he was the pilot of the U-2 spy plane | Powers |
| a top-secret US program to break the Soviet spy codes-which was very successful | Project Verona |
| this event followed WWII, and began when a soviet clerk defected with information that the soviets were spying | Red Scare |
| Shortly after WWII ended, the Soviets pressured this country’s king to accept communist reforms | Romania |
| these people were both guilty of spying-but at the time, the evidence against one of them was shaky | Rosenberg’s |
| Eastern European nations that were now serving the interests of Soviet communism became called this | Satellite Nations |
| this was the 1957 satellite launched by the Soviets | Sputnik |
| this book was really about the Red Scare-not about witches | The Crucible |
| this policy stated that we would give money to European nations to help them fight against communism | Truman Doctrine |
| this special spy plane was shot down over Soviet territory | U-2 |
| At this meeting, FDR, Stalin, and Churchill discussed their postwar plans for Poland and Germany | Yalta |
| a military alliance that was created by the communist countries of Eastern Europe | Warsaw Pact |
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