1st hour: Post one piece of outside evidence here. Be very specific! by Lisa Manson

containment

2024-04-24 12:55:39 UTC

where the US was trying to stop the spread of communism to other countries

Domino Theory

2024-04-24 12:56:05 UTC

The Domino Theory was the mindset by Western Powers, specifically the US, believing that if one Asian country fell to Communism, other Asian countries would follow.

-Kyra S.

Arms Race

2024-04-24 12:56:06 UTC

The Arms Race was a competition between the United States and the Soviet Union that was fighting for superiority, typically using the development and gaining of weapons to define that power.

Each side sought to spread their sphere of influence across the world.

2024-04-24 12:56:55 UTC

By providing aid to counties that sided with their political and economical ideologies, the Soviet Union was able to facilitate the spread of communism, while the US fought to contain it. All of this was done through proxy wars, where the two global superpowers were fighting each other vicariously through smaller wars. -Sarah B.

Bay of pigs invasion

2024-04-24 12:57:41 UTC

in 1961 the US tried to stage an invasion by Cuban exiles. the invasion failed and tensions only got worse Leading to the Cuban missile crisis a year later

-Ben

Truman Doctrine

2024-04-24 12:58:10 UTC

The Truman Doctrine was an American policy that said that the US would help any country that was fighting Communism by providing military, economic, and political support.

socialism

2024-04-24 12:59:50 UTC

a system of government where the means of production are controlled by the community as a whole like with communes in china

propaganda

2024-04-24 12:59:55 UTC

Trying to make the soviets look better even though they were a bad country. Making them look better.

Marshall Plan

2024-04-24 13:00:29 UTC

The Marshall Plan was the US' involvement in providing funds to Europe to rebuild the cities, infrastructure, and economy. It also helped rebuild the continent and it's economy as a whole -Kyle

Vietnamization

2024-04-24 13:00:45 UTC

Strategy to bring American troops home and increase air war over North Vietnam.

Cuban Missile Crisis

2024-04-24 13:01:29 UTC

Soviet Union started to secretly place missles in Cuba to launch attacks on U.S Cities. a war almost started from this but they came to an agreement at the end.-kate

Cuban Missile Crisis

2024-04-24 13:02:08 UTC

The Cuban Missile Crisis was when the Soviet Union put nuclear missiles in Cuba as a response to missiles in Turkey set by the United States. This caused a confrontation between the two world powers that ended once both met their demands. - Angel

Iron Curtain

2024-04-24 13:02:44 UTC

This was a metaphor that described a boundary that separated two parts of Europe from each other. It divided capitalist and communist nations.

Detente

2024-04-24 13:03:04 UTC

period of the easing of the Cold War tensions between the US and the Soviet Union. It was after the Cuban Missle Crisis and toward the very end of the cold war.

McCarthyism

2024-04-24 13:04:06 UTC

Process started by Senator McCarthy in the 1940-1950's to root out people who were rooted communists in the U.S. Often unfair and caused fear among American citizens.

Containment

2024-04-24 13:05:03 UTC

The US's strategy of interfering in different wars in order to try and stop the spread of communism in Asia. This was present in Vietnam and the Korean war.

Red Scare

27weldonstewart — 2024-04-24 13:05:23 UTC

The Red Scare was a period of time when American citizens had fears about Soviet spies and were suspecting their neighbors.

The Great Leap Forward

2024-04-24 13:05:34 UTC

The great leap forward was a five-year plan made by Mao Zedong that failed due to poor planning the goal of the plan was to better the economy by modernizing agriculture to better the output but it could not be sustained and the plan was abandoned in 1961

Glasnost

2024-04-24 13:05:51 UTC

The Glasnost policy strove to increase openness and freedom under Gorbachev. This was one step closer to destroying Stalin's hold on the Soviet Union.

Nuclear Bombs

2024-04-24 13:06:57 UTC

Extremely powerful explosives with the power to level cities. Due to their sheer power, 2 world superpowers using them would annihilate each other if either fired a nuke at the other (Mutually Assured Destruction, aka MAD).

Babrak Karmal

2024-04-24 13:19:01 UTC

General Secretary of Afghanistan during the Soviet-Afghan War. In 1965 he was a founding member of the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) and from 1965 to 1973 served in the National Assembly.

Coups

2024-04-24 13:20:46 UTC

sudden and decisive use of force in politics, particularly when a small number of people violently overthrows or modifies an established government

Coup d'etat

2024-04-24 13:21:08 UTC

A coup d'etat, or coup for short, is when a government is overthrown in favor of a different government. Before the Vietnam war, revolutionary Ho Chi Minh performed a coup to overthrow the French-backed government to replace it with his own communist government in North Vietnam.

Communism

2024-04-24 13:27:30 UTC

communism is a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

containment

2024-04-24 13:42:04 UTC

the u.s trying to stop the spread of communism.

NATO

2024-04-24 13:43:42 UTC

NATO was a group of countries that was made to protect themselves from the USSR and fight against communism while also supporting and aiding each other - Patrick