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The Red Scare
Widespread fear by a society or state about a potential rise of communism. -
The Yalta Conference
FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Yalta. Russia agreed to declare war on Japan after the surrender of Germany and in return FDR and Churchill promised the USSR concession in Manchuria and the territories that it had lost in the Russo-Japanese War. -
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President Truman
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The Creation of the United Nations
An organization that was created of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security. Britain, France, China, the Soviet Union are the five counties that are permanent members and have power to veto. -
The end of WW2
The Allied powers beat the Nazi's and the Axis powers. -
The Long Telegram
George Kennan, sent an 8,000-word telegram to the Department of State detailing his views on the Soviet Union, and U.S. policy toward the communist state. -
Iron Curtain
A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region. -
Truman Doctrine
First established in 1947, after Britain no longer could afford to provide anti-communist aid to Greece and Turkey, it pledged to provide U.S. military and economic aid to any nation threatened by communism. -
The Marshall Plan
Secretary of State George G. Marshall proposed massive and systematic American economic aid to Europe to revitalize the European economies after WWII and help prevent the spread of Communism. -
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The Berlin Blockade/Airlift
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crisis of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies. The Western Allies drop food for Eastern Berlin. -
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Duck and Cover
When the Soviet Union began nuclear testing and the Korean War when it was in full swing. -
Creation of Nato
Organization formed in 1949 as a military alliance of western European and North American states against the Soviet Union and its east European allies -
McCarthyism
McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. -
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The Korean War
The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. United Nations helped South Korea and China helped North Korea. -
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President Eisenhower
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The Rosenbergs
They are a couple that got convinced of committing espionage for the Soviet Union. -
The Warsaw Pact
The 1955 treaty binding the Soviet Union and countries of eastern Europe in an alliance against the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. -
The Suez Canal
Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal. With the British-French enterprise and they and they own it since it's been built. This was how the allies, no counting Russia, get to Asia From Egypt. -
Eisenhower Doctrine
A Middle Eastern country could request American economic assistance or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression. -
U-2 Incident
An international diplomatic crisis erupted when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics shot down an American U-2 spy plane in Soviet air space and captured its pilot.
