The Cold War

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The Cold War

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world wide rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union

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Difference between hot/cold war

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a hot war involves weapons (like explosives that are rly hot) and a cold war is a war without weapons (its cold because not "hot" weapons)

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Yalta Conference

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1945 strategy meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin (the big three)

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Iron Curtain

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term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the border between the Soviet Satelite states and Western Europe

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Berlin East and West

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The east was communist run by the soviets the west was democracy run by the united states

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George Kennan

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created the policy of Containment

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Containment

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policy of keeping communism contained within its existing borders

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Truman Doctrine

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President Truman's promise to help nations struggling against communist movement

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Marshall Plan

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economic and foreign policy that offered aid to western european countries after WWII

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Berlin Airlift

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program in which U.S. and British pilots flew supplies to west berlin during a soviet blockade

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NATO

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(North Atlantic Treaty Organization) military alliance formed to counter Soviet expansion

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Warsaw Pact

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military alliance of the Soviet Union and its satellite states

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Atomic Bomb

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Bomb the US created in an attempt to beat russia in the arms race

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H-bomb

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Hydrogen Bomb bigger bomb than the atomic bomb in order to have a bigger weapon than the Soviet Union

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Arms Race

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contest in which nations compete to build more powerful weapons

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Korean War

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War between North and South Korea. Caused by the different ideologies of the time, North Korea wanted communism while South Korea did not. The effect was the 38th parallel seperating the two sides. it is still heavily guarded the Korean War was never officially ended

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38th Parallel

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line seperating North and South Korea

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Mao Zedong

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leader of communists during china's revolution the winner

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Chiang Kai-Shek

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leader of nationalists in china lost because all we did was send him money not supplies like he needed

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limited war

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war fought to achieve only specific goals

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SEATO

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(Southeast Asia Treaty Organization) defensive alliance aimed at preventing communist aggresion in Asia

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Red scare

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fear that communists were working to take down america

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McCarthyism

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negative catchword for extreme, reckless charges of disloyalty

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Roesenbergs

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Julias and Ethal Rosenberg; husband and wife; charged for giving top secret information about the atomic bomb, there was very little evidence and eventually found guilty and excuted

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Hollywood 10

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group of movie writers, directors, and producers that were believed to be communist

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Alger Hiss

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Executed for giving away secrets very little evidence but still found guilty

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John Foster Dulles

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created the policy of brinkmanship

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Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)

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a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of high-yield weapons of mass destruction by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender.

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Massive Retalliation

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a military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which a state commits itself to retaliate in much greater force in the event of an attack.

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Brinkmanship

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to bring the country to the brink of war then not go to war

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Nikita Khrushchev

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the leader of the soviet union after stalin died, much nicer

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suez crisis

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A major international incident that arose in 1956 from the decision by Gamal A. Nasser of Egypt to nationalize the Suez Canal, which long had been controlled by Great Britain.

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Eisenhower Doctrine

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a Middle Eastern country could request American economic assistance or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state.

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CIA

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Central Inteligence Agency created by the US government to spy on potential communists

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NASA

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National Aeronatutics and Space Administration created during the space race in order to beat the soviet union to space

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Space Race

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race to get into space before the soviet union the united states lost

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Smith Act

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U.S. federal law passed in 1940 that made it a criminal offense to advocate violent overthrow of the government or to organize or be a member of any group or society devoted to such advocacy.

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HUAC

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The House Committee on Un-American Activities an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives.

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Blacklist

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List of people believed to be comminists