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Yalta Conference
Included the U.S., Great Britain, and the Soviet Union for 7 days -
United Nations
A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on 24 October 1945 after World War II with the aim of preventing another war -
Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill claimed an Iron Curtain was descended upon Europe, which separates the Soviet Union and the Western European countries -
HUAC
HUAC was a committee that probed Communist infiltration of the government -
Oponnents
The U.S. and the Soviert Union were allies during WWII, but both countries had spied on each other, and as communism started to spread, a war was begging to form between the capitalist and communist countries. -
Truman Doctrine
Gave $400 billion in economic and military aid to Turkey ad Greece -
Marshall Plan
$13 billion in aid given to rebuild Western Europe -
Berlin Airlift
U.S. Airlift food and supplies into the city of West Berlin -
Containment
After World War II, American leaders developed the policy of containment to resist and stop the spread of communism -
The People's Republic of China
Civil War in China ended in a communist victory, and as the communists defeated the nationalists in 1949, they renamed China "The People's Republic of China". But, the U.S. refused to recognize it until 1972. -
NATO
Alliance to support one another military -
Eisenhower's stance on the Cold War
Eisenhower embraced the policy of containment and felt that any other policy would risk a confrontation with the Soviet Union -
SEATO
To prevent the "Domino Theory" in the Middle East -
Early US involvement in Vietnam
The U.S. and 7 other nations formed SEATO pledging to protect South Vietnam. The U.S. supported South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem because he was an anti-communist. Subsequently, U.S. trained the "Army of the Republic of Vietnam. -
Space Race
Space Race between the two countries between 1957 and 1969 -
Eisenhower Doctrine
Offered economic and military support if communism threatened the Middle East -
Defeat of the French
In 1958. the area became a French Colony called Indo-China. In 1945, Ho Chi Minh organized a Communist Party and declared Vietnam's independence from France. His troops were called Vietcong. -
Berlin Wall
The soviet union begins constructing the Berlin Wall which separated Berlin into 4 zones. At the same time, John F. Kennedy was elected president of the United States. -
The Gulf of Tonkin
August 1964, U.S. patrol ships were allegedly attacked by NVA gunboats in the Gulf of Tonking, causing Congress to pass the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, granting President Johnson the power to take "all necessary measures to repel any further armed attacks" -
Ho Chi Minh Trail
A network of paths used by North Vietnam to transport supplies to the vietcong in the South
