VFL 9: Orgins of the Cold War part 2

Hollywood Ten

ten witnesses from the film industry who refused to cooperate with the HUAC's investigation of Communist influence in Hollywood

Blacklist

A list of about 500 actors, writers, producers and directors who were not allowed to work on Hollywood films because of their alleged Communist connections.

Alger Hiss

U.S. government official accused of being a communist spy for the Soviet Union and convicted of perjury

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg

minor activists in the american communist party and accused of being spies

Joseph McCarthy

US senator (republican); claimed that their were Soviet spies and Communists within the government but had no evidence; discredited by the US senate

McCarthyism

the attacks, often unsubstantiated, by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others on people suspected of being Communists in the early 1950s

H-bomb

the hydrogen bomb - a thermonuclear weapon much more powerful than the Atomic bomb

Dwight D. Eisenhower

President during the Cold War

Brinkmanship

The practice of threatening an enemy with massive military retaliation for any aggression. Also an approach in which a country pushes a situation extremely close to a dangerous point

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

A U.S. agency created to gather secret information about foreign governments.

Warsaw Pact

An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations/ satellites. This was in response to the NATO

Eisenhower Doctrine

a U.S. commitment to defend the Middle East against attack by any communist country, announced by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1957

Nikita Khrushchev

ruled the USSR from 1958-1964; lessened government control of soviet citizens; seeked peaceful coexistence with the West instead of confrontation.

U-2 Incident

the downing of a U.S. spy plane and capture of its pilot by the Soviet Union in 1960