- Policy of Containment: U.S. used military, economy, and international relations to slow down the spread of communism
- Domino Effect: When several countries turn communist, under the pressure of the countries around them.
- Marshall Plan: Strengthened Europe, it modernized business and industrialization, lowered artificial trade barriers, helped develop self-reliance, and gave hope for the future,
- Iron Curtain: divided Europe into two groups after WWII, speech given by Churchill on March 5, 46 and it addressed the segregation between East and West Europe, and it was then that the Cold War began
- Truman Doctrine: took over support from Great Britain, we helped Greece and Turkey-gave them money and military supplies but not troops
House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)-
- Investigated alleged disloyalty and subversive acts on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communist ties
Senator Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism-
- Joe McCarthy: Accused several people, in Hollywood especially, of being communist. Initially held a lot of popularity, but that soon faded as he became more and more fanatical.
- McCarthyism: Publicizing several fanatical, unproven accusations of, in this case, communism.
Berlin Blockade and Airlift-
- Soviets tried to take control of Berlin. Attempted to cut off West Berliners from rest of the world, blockade was supposed to cause starvation and bankruptcy
- The airlift lifted supplies, LIKE CANDY, into Berlin
China becoming communist-Mao-
- Mao Zedong was the founding father of communism. Agrarian reform law put land into the wrong hands. Divorce was easy, businesses privately owned, no polygamy prostitution or abortion, marriage reform law, no foreigners or cars in cities. Cultural revolution.
7. NATO(beginning to present), de-Stalinization and peaceful co-existence-
- The US, Canada, and Western European allies. is a defensive alliance. Post War Germany was split into four parts, red being soviet union, green being uk, blue italy, and yellow u.s. Berlin Wall was built as a desperate attempt for east Germany to keep its citizens.
8. Nuclear Arms race(1945-1970)-
- The U.S. and USSR competed to build more and better nuclear weapons, growing in strength and thinning tensions.
9. Fidel Castro and the Bay of Pigs-
- The bay of pigs invasion was unsuccessful, and many believe that Castro had something to do with the JFK assassination. His beard was ridiculous.
- We trained Cuban Nationals to fight back against cuba. It failed miserably.
The Cuban Missile Crisis-
- Missiles being held in Cuba, we quarantined them so no more missiles could come in. Made a deal that if all missiles were removed from Cuba, we would not invade them.. we also removed our missiles from Turkey.
11. The Berlin Wall--Going Up and Coming Down-
12. Nixon's visit to China-
13. 1970's Peace Attempts-Detente, Salt I, Salt II-
14. Effects of the Soviet's invasion of Afghanistan-
15. Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative(Missile Defense System today)-
16. Gorbachev's/Reagan's changing ways-perestroika and glasnost, INF Treaty-
17. The fall of Communism and the end of the Cold War-explain how it all went down-
18. The new map of Europe(up to present)-
19. Why the US won the Cold War-
20. Korean Conflict--
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