Cold War ABC's by

Alger Hiss

600009518 — 2017-05-09 16:41:09 UTC

A man falsely accused of being Communist

Zedong Mao

600009518 — 2017-05-19 23:25:31 UTC

communist leader in china who was a founder of the republic of china

Yalta conference

600009518 — 2017-05-19 23:29:05 UTC

Meeting of britich Prime minister Winston CHurchill. Soviet premier Josph stalin and U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt

xenophobia

600009518 — 2017-05-19 23:31:32 UTC

Fear of foreigners

Warsaw Pact

600009518 — 2017-05-19 23:33:16 UTC

A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe

Viet Minh Communists

600009518 — 2017-05-19 23:34:17 UTC

Communist Guerilla force founded in 1941 to fight the Japanese and Vichy French occupation in Vietnam

United Nations

600009518 — 2017-05-19 23:38:03 UTC

an international organization formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among member countries

Truman

600009518 — 2017-05-19 23:39:05 UTC

Man who allowed the use of the first atomic Bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Satellite Nations

600009518 — 2017-05-19 23:40:25 UTC

Nations controlled by the Soviet Union

Rosenberg

600009518 — 2017-05-19 23:42:02 UTC

Executed in 1953 for committing espionage for the soviets

Quarantine

600009518 — 2017-05-19 23:44:13 UTC

Cuba was in Quarantine during the Cuban missle crisis by President J.F.K

Potsdam Conference

600009518 — 2017-05-19 23:46:00 UTC

Conference in Potsdam, Germany form July 17 to August 2, 1945

Operation Hurricane

600009518 — 2017-05-19 23:48:16 UTC

Test of the First British Atomic Bomb in October 3, 1952

NATO

600009518 — 2017-05-19 23:49:52 UTC

a military alliance of European and North American democracies founded after World War II to strengthen international ties between member states—especially the United States and Europe

Marshall Plan

600009518 — 2017-05-19 23:51:38 UTC

Program by which the United States gave large amounts of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after the devastation of World War II

long telegram

600009518 — 2017-05-19 23:53:23 UTC

George Kennan, the American charge affairs in Moscow, sends an 8,000-word telegrams to the Department of State detailing his views on the Soviet Union, and U.S. policy toward the communist state.

Korean War

600009518 — 2017-05-19 23:55:25 UTC

North invaded South Korea the UN went to aid its Member

Joseph McCarthy

600009518 — 2017-05-19 23:56:48 UTC

American Politician who ordered house raids to try to find Communist

Iron Curtan

600009518 — 2017-05-19 23:59:07 UTC

the notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989

Hydrogen Bomb

600009518 — 2017-05-20 00:00:23 UTC

an immensely powerful bomb whose destructive power comes from the rapid release of energy during the nuclear fusion of isotopes of hydrogen (deuterium and tritium), using an atom bomb as a trigger.

Germany

600009518 — 2017-05-20 00:03:00 UTC

After its defeat in WW2 Germany was divided between The U.S. Britain, Canada, and Russia

Francis Gary Powers

600009518 — 2017-05-20 00:04:35 UTC

pilot shot down by soviet troops and caused the U.S. to be discovered spying on the Soviet Union

Eisenhower Doctrine

600009518 — 2017-05-20 00:07:03 UTC

a country could request American economic assistance and/or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state

Douglas MacArthur

600009518 — 2017-05-20 00:09:18 UTC

was an American five-star general and field marshal of the Philippine Army. also lead the the battle against the Japanese on the pacific war

CIA

600009518 — 2017-05-20 00:11:13 UTC

a civilian foreign intelligence service of the United States federal government, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT)

Berlin Airlift

600009518 — 2017-05-20 00:12:00 UTC

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 had cut off its supply routes.