History vocab

Massive retaliation

 a cold war military strategy intended to discourage a nuclear attack by committing to launch devastating Counter-Strike to any attack

Joseph McCarthy

 a US senator from Wisconsin who gained National frame in the late 1940s and early 1950s by aggressively charging that Communists were working in the US government he lost support in 1954 after making baseless attacks on the US Army officials 

Agler hiss

 a former US government official accused in 1948 of participating in a communist spying he denied the charges but was convicted of lying under oath in the 1950s

 John Dulles

 Secretary of State under President Dwight Eisenhower he favored the building of an American nuclear Arsenal as part of the effort to decrease the Soviet influence around the world

 Brinkmanship

 the practice of threatening an enemy with massive military retaliation for any aggression

 Maa Zedong

 leader of Chinese Communists he led a successful Revolution and established a communist government in China in 1949

 h u a c house on American Activities Committee

 a congressional Committee created in 1938 that investigated the Communist influence inside and outside the US government in the Years following World War II

 Containment

 the blocking of another nation's attempts to spread its influence especially the effort of the United States to block the spread of the Soviet Union

Berlin Airlift

 a 327 day operation in which the US and British planes flew food and supplies in the West Berlin after the Soviets blockaded the city in 1948

 n a t o North Atlantic Treaty Organization

 a defensive military Alliance formed in 1949 by 10 Western European countries the United States and Canada

 Truman Doctrine

 a US policy announced by President Harry Truman in 1947 are providing economic and military aid to free Nations threatened by internal external opponents

 Blacklist

 a list of 500 actors writers producers and directors who were not allowed to work on Hollywood film because of their alleged communist connections

  38th parallel

 the line of latitude that divides North and South Korea

 Marshall Plan

 the program proposed by Secretary of State George Marshall in 1977 under which the United States supplied economic aid to European nations to help them rebuild after World War II 

 satellite Nation

 a country that is dominated politically and economically by another Nation

 Cold War

 the state of hostility without direct military conflict that developed between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II

 Harry Truman

 the 33rd president of the United States he led the United States through the end of World War II and at the beginning of Cold War

 H-bomb

 the hydrogen bomb a thermonucleic weapon much more powerful than the atomic bomb

 Taiwan

 and Island about a hundred miles from the Chinese Mainland where the United States help set up a nationalist government in 1949

 Korean War

 conflict between North Korea and South Korea lasting from 1950 to 1953 in which the United States along with other un countries fought on the side of South Koreans and trying to fall on the side of North Koreans 

Hollywood ten

 10 Witnesses from the film industry who refused to cooperate with the HUAC investigation of the Communist influence in Hollywood

 CIA Central Intelligence Agency

 an agency created to gather secret information about foreign governments

 arms race

 a competition between nations to gain an advantage and weapons

 Dwight Eisenhower

 the 34th President of the United States He faced challenges in many parts of the world during the Cold War

 Eisenhower Doctrine was a US commitment to defend the Middle East against attack by any communist country announced by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1957

  Iron Curtain

 a phrase by  Winston Churchill 1946 to describe an imaginary line that separated communist countries and the Soviet block of Eastern Europe from countries and Western Europe

   Chiang kai--shek

 leader of the Chinese nationalist government in a strong us Ally his government was defeated by the  Communists in 1949

 Ethel and Julius Rosenberg

 an American couple executed for conspiracy to commit Espionage members of the Communist party they were accused of passing secrets about the nuclear bomb to the Soviet Union

 Francis powers

 an American pilot his u z spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960 causing an international incident

 U-z  incident

 the drowning of a US spy plane and capture of its pilot by the Soviet Union in the 1960s

 McCarthyism

 the attacks often unsubstantiated by Senator Joseph McCarthy and other people suspected of being communist in early 1950s

 mutually assured  Destruction

A cold war policy to respond to any attack with nuclear force resulting in the total Destruction of both parties

 Warsaw 

A military Alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and its eastern European satellites 

Nikita  khrushev

 leader of the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin who thought communism could  peacfully take over the world and he came into conflict with President Eisenhower during the uz incident