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the cold war

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1st conference with the "big three"
Yalta
Stalin did not support what country's pre war gov.
poland
Stalin demanded how much from Germany
20 billion
int’l peacekeeping organization
united nations
April 1945 president ___ dies
Roosevelt
33rd president, unprepared
truman
sec of state
Marshall
Conflicting goals where brought out at this conference
Potsdam
countries subject to
Soviet domination to act as buffer against attacks
satellite states
in order for communism to survive it must
spread
two countries who remained independent of S.U. control
Finland & Yugoslavia
Churchill description division of Communist &
non-Communist life.
iron curtain
how long was the cold war
46 years
us policy of stopping the spread of communism
containment
who called for us help while fighting comm control
Greece & Turkey
1947 speech asking Congress to allow
U.S. to take leadership role in world and protect nations
threatened by communism.
Truman doctrine
European nations draw up econ.
recovery prog. & U.S. support it financially.
Marshall plan
costed the us about ___in Europe
13 billion
U.S., Brit. & France merge occupation zones in
Germany creating
west Germany
S.U. created communist E. Germany. blocking____ to Allied access.
west berlin
Amer./Br. planes supply blocked W.
Berlin.
berlin airlift
1949: 12
nation alliance to protect e/ other in event of a war
NATO
mutual military assist.
Collective Security:
S.U. response to NATO: S.U. & sat.
nation mutual military assistance agreement
Warsaw pact
china nationalist leader
Jiang Jieshi
Chinas communistic leader(winner)
Mao Zedong
Korea was split at the
38th parliament
N. Korean troops
stormed into S. Korea to take it by force. N. Kor.
Captured S. Kor. Capitol of ____
Seoul
this begins the ___ in 1950
Korean war
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Truman sent ___ to lead UN troops in
Korea.
MacArthur
Chinese/ N. Korean forces drove UN forces back into S. Korea
creating a
stalemate
macarthur wants to open a second
front
a cease fire was signed in
1953
defensive alliance to stop spread of communism
SEATO
1952 ___ takes office
Eisenhower
the _-bomb is developed
H
Sect. State for ike
John Foster Dulles
*risking war to protect Amer.
interests
Massive retaliation
*struggle to gain weapons control
arms race
*military power of U.S. & allies made so
strong that no power would attack for fear of
retaliation.
deterrence
build a stronnger
nuclear arsenal
1953 soviet leader ____ takes over
Khrushchev
U.S. acted to support pro-Amer. govt. here
Latin America
U.S. would use force to protect M.E.
nations request. help against Comm. influence
Eisenhower doctrine
Egypt ruler
Gamal Abdel Nasser
(1956) Nasser responded by capturing Br. owned Suez
canal.
Suez crisis
created in 1947, Ike used it for covert operations to
protect Amer. interests
CIA
soviets create ____ to elimate planes carring bobs
ICBM
Sov. used rocket to launch 1st artificial
satellite to orbit Earth: Amer. fear raised.
Sputnik
(1960): Amer. spy plane shot down 15 m. in
sky by Sov. guided missile.
u-2 incident
Nat’l Defense Ed. Act: create more scientists and
teacher’s of science, this leads to the creation of
NASA
illegal to teach/advocate violent
overthrow of U.S. govt.
smith act
illegal to teach/advocate violent
overthrow of U.S. govt.
HUAC
refused to answer HUAC ques.: served jail
sentences and blacklisted.
Hollywood ten
famous scientist is investigated
Oppenheimer
1952 quota discrim.
against Communist nation immigrants.
McCarren-Walter Act
govt. agent found guilty
Alger Hiss
Communist party
members accused and convicted of passing
atomic bomb secrets to Soviets (Julius and Ethel)
rosenburgs
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