separated North and South Korea after the armistice that ended the Korean War

the DMZ (demilitarized zone)

Communist countries of Eastern Europe that were dependent on the Soviet Union Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia (satellite nations)

general in charge of occupied Japan, fired by President Truman for insubordination General Douglas MacArthur

type of American spy plane shot down by the Soviets in 1960 American U-2 spyplane

FBI director who urged HUAC to hold public hearings on Communist subversion J Edgar Hoover

military alliance formed in Eastern Europe by the Soviet Union Warsaw Pact

deadly radiation left over after a nuclear blast nuclear fallout seized by the Egyptians, who intended to use its profits to fund other projects Suez Canal/Crisis

wrote the novel Tomorrow! to educate the public about the horrors of atomic war Philip Wylie

drills performed by American school children in preparation for a Soviet attack. "duck and cover" and other bomb drills

The United Nations was officially organized in 1945 with a Security Council responsible for international peace and security. The Security Council could ask its members to use military force to uphold a UN resolution

To prevent developing nations from allying themselves with the Soviet Union or falling to Communist uprisings, President Eisenhower decided to use covert operations

At the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, President Harry Truman took a firm stand against heavy reparations and insisted that Germany's industry had to be allowed to recover.

The informal relationship between the military and the defense industry that some people believe influences government policy, particularly military spending, is known as a military-industrial complex In 1946, what did Winston Churchill describe as an "iron curtain" falling across Eastern Europe? the establishment of pro-Soviet Communist governments in Eastern Europe Senator Joseph McCarthy created the media frenzy that began his anti-Communist witch hunt by claiming he had a list of Communists employed by the U.S. State Department In the document known as the Long Telegram, U.S. diplomat George Kennan expressed his opinion that the Soviet Union had major economic and political weaknesses and proposed a policy of containment of Soviet expansion The post-World War II Red Scare began in 1945, when a clerk in the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, Canada, defected and turned over documents proving that Soviets were trying to infiltrate the U.S. government. In response to Communist aggression in Greece and Turkey, President Truman outlined a policy known as the __________________________, which pledged the United States to fight the spread of communism worldwide. truman doctrine The purpose of the Marshall Plan was to help Western Europe recover from World War II. Compare the Truman Doctrine to the Marshall Plan. Contained communism was the purpose of the Truman Doctrine. Communism was the newest threat of the world, and so we changed our foreign policy to contain it. The Korean and the Vietnam wars were fought to contain communism (use military) The Marshall Plan is a spending package; the U.S. is going to invest our own money to European countries to lift them up and keep them from turning to communism. The U.S. spent $13 billion to financially get countries back up on their feet. The Marshall Plan was an example of the Truman Doctrine.

Describe the effects of the Cold War on American popular culture in the 1950s. What were some of the themes that writers of literature, music, film, and television used to express their thoughts about the Cold War

some educated people what to do in the case of nuclear bombs

influenced music

tv shows about communist spies

As worries about nuclear war and Communist infiltration filled the public imagination, Cold War themes soon appeared in films, plays, television, the titles of dance tunes, and popular fiction. Matt Cvetic, an FBI undercover informant who secretly infiltrated the Communist Party, captivated readers with reports in the Saturday Evening Post in 1950. His story was later made into the movie I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951). Another film, Walk East on Beacon (1952), features the FBI’s activities in a spy case. In 1953 Arthur Miller’s thinly veiled criticism of the Communist witch-hunts, The Crucible, appeared on Broadway. The play remains popular today as a cautionary tale about how hysteria can lead to false accusations.

a lot about FBI counterspies in pop culture themes