Final Mr Trang Vocab Stuff

Cold War

the hostilities between the U.S. and the Soviet Union led to an era of confrontation and competition between the two countries that lasted from about 1946-1990

Potsdam

Truman finally met Stalin at _____, near Berlin, to primarily work out a deal on Germany

Joseph Stalin

dictator of Soviet Union

Harry Truman

President of the U.S.

Molotov

Soviet Foreign Minister who took the message from Truman back to Stalin

Iron Curtain

separates the Communist nations of Eastern Europe from the West, the World War II era had come to an end

Satellite nations

Communist countries in Eastern Europe came to be called _____

James Byrnes

American secretary of state who pushed Soviets to hold free elections

George Kennan

diplomat who responded with what came to be known as the Long Telegram that explained his views of Soviet goals

Containment

Long Telegram gave rise to the policy of _____, keeping communism within its present territory through diplomatic, economic, ad military actions

Dean Acheson

presidential adviser of Truman who saw Stalin’s move as the first step in a soviet plan to control the Mideast, advising Truman to use force

Truman Doctrine

goal was to aid “free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.”

Marshall Plan

European Recovery Program proposed by Secretary of State George C. Marshall. Would give European nations American aid to rebuild economies

Berlin Airlift

Truman ordered the ____, for 11 months, cargo planes brought in over 2 million tons of supplies to provide them with food, medicine, and coal.

NATO

a mutual defense alliance with initially 12 countries (ex: U.S., Canada, Britain, France) members agreed to come to aid of any member who was attacked

38th Parallel

Allies divided Korea at the ____ of latitude.

Limited war

 a war fought to achieve a limited objective, such as containing communism

General MacArthur

Took charge of occupied Japan, pushed North Koreans north to the border of China, was fired by Truman since he wanted to keep expanding the war into China or to use the atomic bomb

Korean War

marked an important turning point in the cold war, expanded the Cold War to Asia, fought in Korean War

Un-American Activities Committees

formed in 1938 to investigate both Communist and Fascist activities in the U.S., it was a relatively minor committee until Hoover catapulted it to prominence

Alger Hiss

a lawyer and diplomat who had served in Roosevelt’s administration, attended the Yalta conference, and taken part in organizing the UN

Perjury

lying under oath. A jury agreed and convicted Hiss of _____

McCarran Act

Congress passed the Internal Security Act, or ______,

McCarthyism

tactic of damaging reputations with vague and unfounded charges

Censure

a formal disapproval. Later that year, the Senate passed a vote of ____ against McCarthy

Massive retaliation

threaten to use nuclear weapons if a Communist state tried to seize territory by force

Sputnik

On October 4, 1957, Soviets launched _____, the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth

Brinkmanship

the willingness to go to the brink of war to force the other side to back down

Military industrial complex

relationship between the military establishment and the defense industry. He warned Americans to be on guard against the immense influence of this ____ in a democracy

Central Intelligence Agency

Eisenhower decided to use covert operations conducted by the _____

Covert

To prevent Communist uprisings in other countries, Eisenhower decided to use ____, or hidden, operations

The Taiwan Crisis

China threatened to take over Taiwan. Eisenhower warned the Chinese and hinted at using nuclear weapons to stop them, which stopped China