un 8 personalized learning assignment

cold war

The state of hostility, without direct military conflict, that developed

between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II

united nations

an international peacekeeping organization to which most nations in

the world belong, founded 1in 1945 to promote world peace, security, and

economic developmen

marshall plan

The program, proposed by the Secretary of State George Marshall in

1947, under which the United States supplied economic aid to European nations to

help them rebuild after World War II.

truman doct

A U.S. policy, announced by Pres. Truman in 1947, of providing

economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external forces. P.

606/ Providing aid to nations that were attempting to resist communism.

satilite nation

a country that is dominated politically and economically by another

nation

berlin bloackade

the Soviet blockade of the German city of Berlin, implemented from

1948 to 1949 to halt land travel into the city in hopes of forcing the United States,

Great Britain, and France to give up their plan to combine their occupation zones

into a single, democratic West German state; the Allied nations resisted the blockade

by airlifting food and supplies into Berlin.

containment

the blocking of another nation’s attempts to spread its influence-

especially the efforts of the United States to block the spread of Soviet influence

during the late 1940s and early 1950s

NATO

a defensive military alliance formed in

1949 by ten Western European countries, the United States and Canada.

Berlin airlift

a 327-day operation in which U.S. and British planes flew food and

supplies into West Berlin after the Soviets blockaded the city in 1948.

Korean war

a conflict between North and South Korea, lasting from 1950-1953, in

which the United States, along with other UN countries, fought on the side of the

South Koreans and China fought on the side of the North Koreans.

House of Un-American Activities Committe

a congressional committee that

investigated Communist influence inside and outside the U.S. government in the

years following World War II.

mcCarthyism

the attacks, often unsubstantiated, by Senator Joseph McCarthy and

others on people suspected of being Communists in the early 1950s.

the second red scare

The fear of communism in the U.S. during the 40s & 50s

iron curtain

a phrase used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe an imaginary line

that separated Communist countries in the Soviet bloc of Eastern Europe from

countries in Western Europe

Warsaw pact

a military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and its Eastern

European allies

brinkmanship

The practice of threatening an enemy with massive military retaliation

for any aggression p. 623 the arms

u-2 incedent

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

Union in 1960

causes

• U. S. and Soviet Union have competing (differing) economic and political systems

• Soviet Union dominates Eastern Europe by establishing satellite nations

• U. S. establishes policy of containment

• Communists take over China

affects

• Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan aid Europe

• NATO and Warsaw Pact are founded

• Arms race begins

• East-West tensions escalate over Germany

• Anti-Communism grips U. S.

• Superpowers compete for world power

• Space race begins