History Communism Containment

Containment

Policy of stopping the spread of communism created in March 1947 by President Truman

Domino Theory

Created by President Eisenhower, the idea that if one country fell to communism, the surrounding countries would too

Bay of Pigs plan

Planes disguised as Cuban air force, to hit Cuban airbases to weaken their air force, convince Cuban people to start revolution

Bay of Pigs reasons failed

Cuban military prepared for attack, Cuban people didn’t want revolution, US air force shot down

Cuban Missile Crisis

USSR put missiles on Cuba and Kennedy calls for them to withdraw them whilst Kennedy blockades Cuba, Khrushchev agrees to remove missiles if US agrees not to attack/stop blockade, US U-2 plane is shot down over Cuba and Kennedy finally agrees

US in Cuba

Back in the 50s/60s Americans would use Cuba as a holiday get away and would gamble there, the American mafia had practically taken over Cuba

Vietnam war cause

September 1940, Japan united Annam, Cochinchina and Tonkin under a savage rule, therefore an anti-Japanese movement was made under Ho Chi Minh trying to unite all of Vietnam

Viet Cong tactics

Guerrilla warfare, booby traps, underground tunnelling

US versus VC issues

US used search and destroy tactics which destroyed innocent Vietnamese villages and not Viet Cong bases

Ho-Chi-Min trail

A supply route linking North Vietnam to South Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia, meaning US couldn’t attack it, used by communists

US reaction to Vietnam war

Americans began to notice the savagery of the war due to the media showing horrific images of innocent Vietnamese people causing the Anti War movement to grow

Vietminh

Anti-Japanese resistance movement of the 1950s

Viet Cong

National Front of the Liberation of South Vietnam

US tactics in Vietnam

Napalm and Agent Orange, deadly chemicals. Operation Rolling Thunder, bombing

Korean War

Between North Korea and South Korea with the US supporting the South and the USSR supporting the North

38th parallel

Line that North and South Korea eventually settled at after fighting across with help from the US and the USSR

Cominform

Communist Information Bureau set up by the USSR to inform Communist countries how they should be operating

Warsaw Pact

Military pact between Communist Eastern European countries, you had to be a part of this to be considered a Communist country in Eastern Europe

Marshall Aid

Financial aid given to countries who showed allegiance to not becoming communist, made by General Marshall in the US as a part of the Containment Doctrine

UNO

United Nations Organisation, strongly controlled by US, Soviet Russia left after Communist China was refused to be allowed to join