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United Nations
After World War Two the United Nations were formed in order to prevent a future world war. Most Aliied countries joined the Unied Nations. However, Russia did not, they disagreed with some agreements and decide to stay independent. This was when the United States started viewing Russia as a threat. -
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Cold War
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Iron Curtain
Description of the physical, and military division of Europe between the western and southern capitalist states and the eastern communist states. Wiston Churchill made the iron curtain more popular by critizing it in his speech of March 5 1946 -
Truman Doctrine and Containment
United States foreign policy introduced at the start of the Cold War, aimed at stopping the spread of Communism and keeping it contained and isolated within its current borders, otherwise the domino effect would occur, where if one nation became Communist, the surrounding ones would follow. -
CIA
At first, the CIA was a goverment experiment that was used to see how a secret agency would work for America. However, it played a major part in the Cold War, for it trained forces and created secret missions. -
Marshall Plan
A program of financial aid and other initiatives, sponsored by the US, designed to boost the economies of western European countries after World War II. It was originally advocated by Secretary of State George C. Marshall and passed by Congress in 1948. -
Berlin Airlift
Airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin -
Joseph McCarthy
McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread Communist subversion. He was noted for making claims that there were large numbers of Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers inside the United States federal government and elsewhere. -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the Chinese, with military material aid from the Soviet Union. The war was a result of the physical division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War at the end of World War II. Following the surrender of Japan in 1945, America divided the peninsula along the 38th Parallel, with United States troops in the south and Soviet troops in the north -
Red Scare
Period of anticommunist hysteria in United States.
the resumption of anticommunist activities in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Joseph McCarthy main "leader" of this. -
Sputnik
The first satellite to be placed in orbit by Russia. This angered the United States and caused the space race. -
Space Race
The Space Race was competition between the Soviet Union and the United States for power in space exploration. Cold War rivalry between the two nations focused on getting firsts in space exploration, -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful attempt by United States-backed Cuban exiles to overthrow the government of the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Made Castro seem strong and heroic. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The United States armed forces were at their highest state of readiness ever and Soviet field commanders in Cuba were prepared to use battlefield nuclear weapons to defend the island if it was invaded. Luckily they came to an agreement. -
Vietnam War
A war between the communist armies of North Vietnam who were supported by the Chinese and the armies of South Vietnam who were supported by the United States. America supported Vietnam in order to avoid the domino effect. -
Hawks and Doves
The Hawks believed that Americans should lend sea and air support to the South Vietnamese army, the Air Force should bomb important economic and military target the American Army should cut the Ho Chi Minh trail, and the American military should train and supply the South Vietnamese army. The Doves believed that The Ho Chi Minh should have been looked upon as the father or leader of his country, and it is the right of all people to choose their own government.
