EXAM REVIEW - Cold War

WARS AND MOVEMENTS

Iron Curtain

(HT) , Term used by Churchill in 1946 to describe the growing East-West divide in postwar Europe between communist and democratic nations.

Little Rock Nine

Warsaw Pact

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

Western Allies’ WWII alliance with Stalin:

Korean War

First "hot war" or the Cold War. Began in 1950 when the Soviet-backed North Koreans invaded South Korea before meeting a counter-offensive by UN Forces, dominated by the US, and the war ended in stalemate in 1953.

The Red-Scare

The term is named after H.G. Wells, refers to the dangerous forces of unfairness and fear wrought by anti-communist paranoia.

The Cold War idea of Containment

Containment was the foundational U.S. Cold War foreign policy was designed to prevent the spread of communism and Soviet influence. It advocated long-term, firm resistance to Soviet expansionism, utilizing economic aid (Marshall Plan), military alliances (NATO), and proxy interventions to restrict communism within its existing borders.

U.S. Navy in the Cuban Missile Crisis

enforcing a "quarantine" (naval blockade) that blocked further Soviet offensive military shipments to Cuba. Led by Admiral Robert L. Dennison, the Atlantic Fleet monitored the island, tracked Soviet submarines, and stood ready for a potential invasion.

Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain Speech”

Election of 1948

Chambers-Hiss Case

Chambers-Hiss Case Outcome/impact

Vietnam War

“Vietnamization”:

President Richard Nixon's strategy for ending U.S involvement in the Vietnam war, involving a gradual withdrawal of American troops and replacement of them with South Vietnamese forces.

What happened in Birmingham, AL during the Civil Rights movement?

Rev. Dr. MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech

Brown v. Board of Education

What was Rosa Park’s role in the Civil Rights movement?

What clause in the Constitution was relied upon to prohibit pubic accommodations from discriminating by race?

The Presidential election of 1968

The long-term causes of the Great Depression

The influence of 1950s Rock & Roll U.S. Interstate Highway System

Levittown, NY Baby Boomer generation

Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)

Project C — Birmingham results

Letter from Birmingham jail

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

16th Street Baptist Church bombing

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Voting Rights Act of 1965

1960s Race Riots

1965 Watts Riot