1. Cold War

2. A. International activism
Membership in the United Nations*-
Maintain international peace and security*-
Further international cooperation in solving problems

3. Marshall Plan*- Economic Aid ($13 billion) to Western Europe to help them rebuild
NATO*- military alliance between US and Western European Countries to stop the spread of communism

4. B. Cold War
Berlin Airlift- US airlifted food/supplies to countries that were being physically blocked by the Soviets

5. Communist regime in China Soviet nuclear weapons
Truman Doctrine*- policy that the US would contain communism around the world
Expanding and strengthening of communism * (1949)
Communist regime in China
Soviet nuclear weapons

6. 4. Korean War ( )
caused by Domino Theory and containment policy* - see vocabulary
Country remains divided at the 38th parallel* - North Korea (communist) and South Korea (democracy) are still separated
UN Police Action* - a nation violates United Nations rules and the UN votes to take military (police) action against that nation
Called the “Forgotten War” because it comes in between WWII and Vietnam-

8. 5. Cuba Bay of Pigs invasion*-
Failed attempt by the U.S. to overthrow Fidel Castro
CIA blamed JFK for failure

9. Cuban Missile Crisis*- video
Standoff between US and USSR of nuclear weapons
US set up naval blockade around Cuba

12. C. Arms Race
Civil Defense- citizens prepare for possible nuclear attack, building bomb shelters, “duck and cover” drills, radio and air raid siren warnings-
Mutually Assured destruction*- agreement not to bomb each other because everyone will eventually die
Sputnik- first man made satellite to orbit the earth. (a Soviet satellite)
Nuclear test ban treaty- agreement to stop testing a-bombs because they are destroying the earth’s atmosphere

13. PEOPLE

14. 1. Harry Truman
US president during the Berlin Airlift and Korean War

15. 2. General Douglas MacArthur
led US and UN troops in Korea. Replaced by Truman for suggesting the use of nuclear weapons against China

16. 3. Dwight D. Eisenhower
US president at the end of Korean War and during the CIA’s planning of the Bay of Pigs invasion

17. 4. John F. Kennedy
President during Bay of Pigs invasion, Cuban Missile Crisis and made the decision to send military advisors to Vietnam

18. 5. Lyndon B. Johnson
President that escalated the war in Vietnam

19. 6. Richard Nixon
President that began “Vietnamization”, ended military involvement in Vietnam and established “Détente” with China and the USSR

20. 7. Mao Zedong
led the communist revolution in China and was their leader from to 1976

21. 8. Ho Chi Minh
communist leader of North Vietnam from who aided the Viet Cong in the fight against the anti- communist forces in South Vietnam

22. 9. Vietcong
South Vietnamese rebels who supported communist government of North Vietnam

23. 10. Fidel Castro
communist leader of Cuba who let the Soviet Union place missiles there leading to the Cuban missile crisis

24. 1.. Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet leader during the building of the Berlin Wall and Cuban Missile Crisis

25. VOCABULARY

26. 1. Cold War
conflict between the Soviet Union and the US carried on by political and economic means

27. 2. Containment
stop the spread of communism

28. 3. Détente
easing of tensions between the US and communist nations

29. 4. Domino Theory
Eisenhower’s theory that allowing one country in a region to fall under communist control would cause the others in that region to fall too

30. 6. Mutually Assured Destruction
a philosophy that kept the super powers from bombing each other because each side had the ability to annihilate the other

31. Vietnamization
Nixon’s policy to gradually withdraw US troops from Vietnam while training the South Vietnamese to take more responsibility for their own defense

32. 4. Communism
Political & Economic theory that all property is owned by govt and shared among everyone