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The Red Scare
Began when Igor Gouzenko walked out of the Soviet Embassy and left without permission. Left with documents showing Soviets' effort to infiltrate government agencies to find out information about the atomic bomb. -
Presidents in office
Truman - 1945 - 1953
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The Yalta Conference
Stalin and Churchill met up at Yalta to Plan the postwar world. Poland was a major issue, It was agreed that the Polish government created by the Soviets would be recognized as well as the prewar Polish government -
Creation of the United Nations
General Assembly with 11 members. Five countries were allowed to be permanent members of the Security Council and would also have veto power. -
End of WW2
Japan surrendered on board the USS Missouri. -
The Long Telegram
A message sent by George Kennan that was thousands of words long that explained his views of the Soviets. -
The Iron Curtain
Churchill mentioned an "iron curtain" falling across Eastern Europe in his speech in Missouri. People remembered the term used and started to describe the Communist nations of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union as the "iron curtain" -
Marshall Plan
Gave European nations American aid to rebuild their economies. -
Truman Doctrine
Harry Truman asked congress for $400 million to fight Communist aggression. -
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Berlin Blockade/Airlift
Was created to force the U.S. to reconsider its decision to pull resources and not give Russians what they wanted, or abandon West Berlin -
Creation of NATO
Mutual defense alliance. Members of the NATO agreed to help any other member who was attacked. -
The Korean War
North Korean troops invaded the South because no one was happy with the separation. Both sides wanted to take over and wanted to be the only Korea -
McCarthyism
Joseph McCarthy accused people of being communists -
The Rosenbergs
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of espionage for passing atomic secrets to the Soviets during and after the war. -
Duck and Cover
Duck-and-cover was taught in schools to make kids feel safer even though they would not be protected from the bomb. For every person killed by a nuclear strike, four more die from fallout -
The Warsaw Pact
A political and military alliance between the Soviet Union and satellite Eastern European Countries. -
The Suez Canal
Wanted to prevent Arab nations from working with the Soviets. We wouldn't give them the money to build the canal so they took it over. -
Eisenhower Doctrine
Eisenhower asked Congress to authorize the use of military force whenever the president thought it was necessary to assist Middle East nations resisting Communist aggression. -
U-2 Incident
President Eisenhower and Nikita Khrushchev were supposed to meet up but one of the U.S spy planes was spying on Russia and they shot it down, the U.S lied and said it was a weather plane but they had proof we were lying
