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COLD WAR 1. 1945-1962. What is the United Nations?. An international organization to keep peace in the world. What is communism?. An economic system in which all property and means of production are owned by society as a whole (i.e., by the gov’t. in the name of the people). - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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COLD WAR 1
1945-1962
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What is the United Nations?
• An international organization to keep peace in the world
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What is communism?
• An economic system in which all property and means of production are owned by society as a whole (i.e., by the gov’t. in the name of the people)
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What is socialism?• An economic system in which
the government owns and controls the means of production, like power plants, transportation, and communication
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What was the Cold War?
• The war of words between the United States and the Soviet Union between 1945 and 1991
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What was the Truman Doctrine?
• U.S. would defend free peoples who were resisting attempted subjugation (control) by armed minorities or outside pressure groups
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What President was responsible for the
Marshall Plan?
•Harry Truman
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What was the Marshall Plan?
•U.S. economic aid program to European nations after World War II
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What was the dual purpose of the Marshall Plan?
•Rebuild European economies
•Stop the spread of communism
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What was containment?
• The American policy to limit communism to those areas where it already existed
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What was the non-communist part of
Germany during the Cold War?
•West Germany
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What was the communist part of Germany during
the Cold War?
•East Germany
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Who was Alger Hiss?
• A U.S. State Department official charged with giving secret documents to the Soviets
• Convicted of perjury
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Who were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
• A couple who worked on the U.S. atomic project
• They were convicted of espionage and executed
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What is espionage?
Spying
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What federal agency coordinates the spy
activities of the United States government?
•Central Intelligence Agency or CIA
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What was NATO?• A defensive military alliance
of U.S. and Western European countries
• An attack on one would be considered an attack on all
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Who was the Communist Chinese
leader?
•Mao Zedong
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Who was the anti-communist Chinese
leader?
•Chiang Kai-shek
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What is Taiwan?
• Anti-communist nation founded on the island of Formosa when Chiang fled China
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Who was Senator Joseph McCarthy?
• A Republican senator who accused many American officials of being communists
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What was McCarthyism?
• Unfairly accusing others of disloyalty and subversion (overthrow of the government)
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Which is the communist Korea?
•North Korea
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Which is non-communist Korea?
•South Korea
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What was the Korean War?
• The 1950-1953 war caused when communist North Korea invaded anti-communist South Korea
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Who was president when the Korean War
began?
•Harry S. Truman
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Who was president when the Korean
War ended?
•Dwight D. Eisenhower
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What were the Army-McCarthy Hearings?
• Televised investigations of alleged communist influence in U.S. Army
• Revealed that Senator Joseph McCarthy had made many false charges
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Which president was associated with massive
retaliation?
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
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What was Massive Retaliation?
• President Eisenhower’s policy that the U.S. would use swift all-out military actions against any nation committing aggression (attack)
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What was the Bay of Pigs?
• The CIA sponsored invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles to overthrow Castro. It failed!
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What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
• Soviets placed nuclear missiles in Cuba
• U.S. blockaded Cuba• Soviets removed the missiles
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Who was the Soviet leader during the Cuban
Missile Crisis?
•Nikita Khrushchev