Intro to Cold War Brochure by Mary Claire https://padlet.com/lemoine_marycla/knuv8q6chfwh en-us 2017-03-21 13:12:11 UTC 2023-05-17 02:05:03 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Ninja.png The Cold War is a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare, in particular. lemoine_marycla https://padlet.com/lemoine_marycla/knuv8q6chfwh/wish/161478856 2017-03-21 13:14:45 UTC https://padlet.com/lemoine_marycla/knuv8q6chfwh/wish/161478856 It was between the Soviet bloc countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990. lemoine_marycla https://padlet.com/lemoine_marycla/knuv8q6chfwh/wish/161479258 2017-03-21 13:15:50 UTC https://padlet.com/lemoine_marycla/knuv8q6chfwh/wish/161479258 The Cold War started when WWII was over, and the Soviet Union controlled all of the countries that it freed during WWII. The U.S. was not in favor of this, especially since the Soviet Union was communist. The U.S. spoke to them about this, and that is what started the Cold War. lemoine_marycla https://padlet.com/lemoine_marycla/knuv8q6chfwh/wish/161479546 2017-03-21 13:16:37 UTC https://padlet.com/lemoine_marycla/knuv8q6chfwh/wish/161479546 Containment is a military strategy to stop the expansion of an enemy. It is best known as the Cold War policy of the United States and its allies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. lemoine_marycla https://padlet.com/lemoine_marycla/knuv8q6chfwh/wish/161479768 2017-03-21 13:17:12 UTC https://padlet.com/lemoine_marycla/knuv8q6chfwh/wish/161479768 The Iron Curtain is a term used in the West to refer to the boundary line which divided Europe into two separate areas of political influence from the end of World War II until the end of the Cold War. lemoine_marycla https://padlet.com/lemoine_marycla/knuv8q6chfwh/wish/161479905 2017-03-21 13:17:31 UTC https://padlet.com/lemoine_marycla/knuv8q6chfwh/wish/161479905 The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy to stop Soviet imperialism during the Cold War. It was announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947 when he pledged to contain Soviet threats to Greece and Turkey. lemoine_marycla https://padlet.com/lemoine_marycla/knuv8q6chfwh/wish/161480073 2017-03-21 13:17:58 UTC https://padlet.com/lemoine_marycla/knuv8q6chfwh/wish/161480073 The Marshall Plan was officially known as the European Recovery Program. It was the Truman administration's program for rebuilding European economies destroyed by World War II. lemoine_marycla https://padlet.com/lemoine_marycla/knuv8q6chfwh/wish/161480221 2017-03-21 13:18:19 UTC https://padlet.com/lemoine_marycla/knuv8q6chfwh/wish/161480221 The Berlin Airlift was a military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany, which at that time surrounded West Berlin (see Berlin wall), had cut off its supply routes. The United States joined with western European nations in flying the supplies in. The airlift was one of the early events of the cold war. lemoine_marycla https://padlet.com/lemoine_marycla/knuv8q6chfwh/wish/161480583 2017-03-21 13:19:14 UTC https://padlet.com/lemoine_marycla/knuv8q6chfwh/wish/161480583 NATO stands for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The organization constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party lemoine_marycla https://padlet.com/lemoine_marycla/knuv8q6chfwh/wish/161480759 2017-03-21 13:19:38 UTC https://padlet.com/lemoine_marycla/knuv8q6chfwh/wish/161480759 The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations, with the United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea. China came to the aid of North Korea, and the Soviet Union gave some assistance. lemoine_marycla https://padlet.com/lemoine_marycla/knuv8q6chfwh/wish/161481252 2017-03-21 13:20:42 UTC https://padlet.com/lemoine_marycla/knuv8q6chfwh/wish/161481252 McCarthyism was a vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy in the period 1950–54. Many of the accused were blacklisted or lost their jobs, although most did not in fact belong to the Communist Party. lemoine_marycla https://padlet.com/lemoine_marycla/knuv8q6chfwh/wish/161481383 2017-03-21 13:21:02 UTC https://padlet.com/lemoine_marycla/knuv8q6chfwh/wish/161481383 The Space Race was the competition between nations regarding achievements in the field of space exploration. lemoine_marycla https://padlet.com/lemoine_marycla/knuv8q6chfwh/wish/161481638 2017-03-21 13:21:35 UTC https://padlet.com/lemoine_marycla/knuv8q6chfwh/wish/161481638 The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace. The aircraft, flown by Central Intelligence Agency pilot Francis Gary Powers, was performing photographic aerial reconnaissance when it was hit by an S-75 Dvina surface-to-air missile and crashed near Sverdlovsk. Powers parachuted safely and was captured. lemoine_marycla https://padlet.com/lemoine_marycla/knuv8q6chfwh/wish/161481917 2017-03-21 13:22:14 UTC https://padlet.com/lemoine_marycla/knuv8q6chfwh/wish/161481917 Eisenhower Doctrine refers to a speech by President Dwight David Eisenhower on 5 January 1957, within a "Special Message to the Congress on the Situation in the Middle East." Under the 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 from another state lemoine_marycla https://padlet.com/lemoine_marycla/knuv8q6chfwh/wish/161482181 2017-03-21 13:22:44 UTC https://padlet.com/lemoine_marycla/knuv8q6chfwh/wish/161482181 Brinkmanship is the art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, typically in politics. lemoine_marycla https://padlet.com/lemoine_marycla/knuv8q6chfwh/wish/161482432 2017-03-21 13:23:19 UTC https://padlet.com/lemoine_marycla/knuv8q6chfwh/wish/161482432 The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. The confrontation, elements of which were televised, is often considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war. lemoine_marycla https://padlet.com/lemoine_marycla/knuv8q6chfwh/wish/161482612 2017-03-21 13:23:43 UTC https://padlet.com/lemoine_marycla/knuv8q6chfwh/wish/161482612 The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. A counter-revolutionary military, trained and funded by the United States government's Central Intelligence Agency, Brigade 2506 fronted the armed wing of the Democratic Revolutionary Front and intended to overthrow the increasingly communist government of Fidel Castro. Launched from Guatemala and Nicaragua, the invading force was defeated within three days by the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces, under the direct command of Prime Minister Fidel Castro. lemoine_marycla https://padlet.com/lemoine_marycla/knuv8q6chfwh/wish/161482873 2017-03-21 13:24:13 UTC https://padlet.com/lemoine_marycla/knuv8q6chfwh/wish/161482873