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The Cold War rlt
Chapters 28-29
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Harry Truman | |
| cold war | -Begins and Ends in Berlin -U.S. v. U.S.S.R. -The Fall of the Berlin Wall ended the war |
| containment | The action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits |
| Marshall Plan | extended credits amounting to as much as $20 billion over the next four years to accelerate Europe's economic renewal |
| Warsaw Pact | an alliance creating an organised military among central and political ties |
| Mao Zedong | Chinese communist leader |
| Douglas MacArthur | was appointed as Supreme Commander in the Allied occupation of Japan |
| Dwight Eisenhower | |
| Indochina | -cambodia -laos -vietnam |
| domino theory | if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control |
| Bay of Pigs invasion | American-trained force of about 1,600 exiled Cuban freedom fighters invaded Cuba |
| Berlin Wall | keep East Berliners from escaping to freedom in the West |
| Dixiecrat | formed by Democrats from southern states in order to oppose to Harry S Truman |
| Alger Hiss | a state department official |
| the Roserbergs | were tried and convicted for leaking vital atomic bomb secrets to Russian agents |
| Adlai Stevenson | United States politician and diplomat |
| Peace Corps | An organization sponsored by the US government that sends young people to work as volunteers in developing countries |
| Rosa Parks | was arrested for not giving up her bus seat to a white man |
| Lyndon Johnson | ran against senator Barry GoldWater |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | prohibited racial discrimination in public places |
| judicial activism | an interpretation of the U.S. constitution holding that the spirit of the times and the needs of the nation can legitimately influence judicial decisions |
| Tet Offensive | Communists began a series of devastating battles |
| Robert Kennedy | American politician who served as U.S. attorney general during the presidency of his brother J.F.K. |
| detente | the easing of tensions or strained relations |
| vietnamization | the U.S. program of turning over to the South Vietnamese government responsibility for waging the conflict, in order to implement withdrawal of U.S. military personnel |
| Sputnik | the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth |
| Neil Armstrong | first American on the moon - 1969 |
| Spiro Agnew | resigned from office after admitting to taking bribes and evading his income taxes |
| Gerald Ford | succeeded Nixon when Nixon resigned |
| Jimmy Carter | |
| Camp David Peace Accord | *Menachem Bergin - Israel *Anwar Sadat - Egypt *Promised to promote peace *Egypt - acknowledged Israel's sovereignty *Israel - gave back Sinai peninsula *Sadat was assassinated in 1981 |
| Truman Doctrine | policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology |
| NATO | U.S , Canada and 10 Western European nations signed a defense pact. |
| Berlin Airlift | The U.S. flew food and supplies in to Berlin to save the 2 1/4 million West Berliners from starvation |
| Chiang Kai Shek | Chinese military and political figure |
| Korean War - 38th parallel | |
| Inchon | A port on the western coast of South Korea |
| limited war | A war in which the weapons, the territory, or the objectives are restricted |
| Ho Chi Minh | president of North Vietnam 1954–69 |
| Fidel Castro | Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator |
| Nikita Khrushchev | Soviet statesman and premier who denounced Stalin |
| Fair Deal | "the welfare of all the people against special privilege for the few" |
| Richard Nixon | |
| McCarthyism | The use of unfair investigatory or accusatory methods in order to suppress opposition |
| John F. Kennedy | -assassinated in Dallas, Texas -youngest elected President |
| Jackie Kennedy | epitomized the American ideal of youth, brains and beauty |
| baby boom | a temporary marked increase in the birth rate |
| Brown v. Board of Education | ending the legal basis for racial segregation in schools and other public facilities in the United States |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks |
| Jackie Robinson | the first black American ballplayer to play for a major league team |
| Lee Harvey Oswald | assassinated J.F.K. |
| The Great Society | the 2 major goals for this were to improve education and to eradicate poverty |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | strengthened previous voting rights laws, and the number of black Americans registered to vote increased by 40% |
| gulf of Tonkin resolution | authorized Johnson to use all necessary measures to repel armed attacks against U.S. forces in Vietnam |
| Henry Kissinger | United States diplomat who served under President Nixon and President Ford |
| SALT | limited the number of increases of nuclear weapons |
| John Glenn | became the first American to orbit the earth |
| Malcolm X | was the most prominent black separatist leader of the 1960s |
| Watergate | a political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice; led to the resignation of Richard Nixon |
| What ended the Great Depression? | the postwar economic boom |
| The Fair Deal measures | -federal aid to low-cost public housing and slum clearance projects. -in insurance in the minimum wage from 40 cents to 75 cents per hour. -an increase from $5,000 to $10,000 in bank accounts insured by FDIC |
| Presidents | -Hayes -Garfield -Arthur -Cleveland -Harrison -McKinley -Roosevelt -Taft -Wilson -Harding -Coolidge -Hoover -Roosevelt -Truman -Eisenhower -Kennedy -Johnson -Nixon -Ford -Carter |
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