Unit 6 Vocabulary by BRODY CLAYTON

Yalta Conference

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1945 meeting between US, UK, and USSR leaders to discuss post-WWII Europe.

The Rosenbergs

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American couple executed in 1953 for allegedly spying for the Soviet Union.

United Nations

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International organization founded in 1945 to promote global cooperation.

McCarthyism

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Anti-communist witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

Satellite nations

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Eastern European countries controlled by the USSR during the Cold War.

H-Bomb

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Thermonuclear weapon using fusion for immense destructive power.

Containment

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US strategy to prevent the spread of communism during the Cold War.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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34th US President (1953-1961) and WWII general.

Iron Curtain

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Term for the ideological division between communist and capitalist nations.

Truman Doctrine

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US policy to support nations resisting communist aggression.

CIA

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US intelligence agency responsible for gathering and analyzing national security information.

Marshall Plan

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US initiative to aid Western Europe's post-WWII recovery.

Nikita Khrushchev

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Soviet leader (1953-1964) known for reforms and confrontations with the West.

Berlin Airlift

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Allied operation to supply West Berlin during the Soviet blockade in 1948-1949.

Sputnik

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First artificial satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.

Berlin Wall

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Barrier built by East Germany in 1961 to prevent emigration to the West.

Baby Boom

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Significant increase in birth rates following WWII.

NATO

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Military alliance formed in 1949 for collective defense against the Soviet Union.

John F. Kennedy

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35th US President (1961-1963) known for the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Warsaw Pact

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Soviet-led military alliance in Eastern Europe, dissolved in 1991.

Fidel Castro/Cuba

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Cuban revolutionary who established a communist regime in 1959.

Chiang Kai-shek

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Chinese leader who lost the Chinese Civil War to the Communists.

Bay of Pigs

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Failed CIA-backed invasion of Cuba in 1961.

Mao Zedong

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Chinese communist leader and founder of the People's Republic of China.

Cuban Missile Crisis

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1962 confrontation between the US and USSR over Soviet missiles in Cuba.

Korean War

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Conflict (1950-1953) between North and South Korea.

Lyndon Baines Johnson

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36th US President (1963-1969), escalated US involvement in Vietnam.

38th Parallel

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Boundary between North and South Korea.

Ho Chi Minh

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Vietnamese communist leader who fought against French and US forces.

HUAC

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US congressional committee investigating communist influence during the Cold War.

Vietminh

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Vietnamese nationalist movement led by Ho Chi Minh.

Red Scare

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Periods of intense anti-communist hysteria in the US.

Domino Theory

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Belief that the spread of communism in one country would lead to others falling.

Geneva Accords

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Agreements in 1954 to temporarily divide Vietnam and call for elections.

Ngo Dinh Diem

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First President of South Vietnam (1955-1963).