Review Sheet for Cold War Test
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Review sheet for Cold War test
- Origins of the Cold War
- Changes in world after WWII
- Nuremberg trials
- Occupation of Japan by U.S.
- Containment
- Truman Doctrine
- Marshall Plan
- NATO
- Warsaw Pact
- Berlin Airlift
- Domino Theory
- Arms race
- Iron Curtain
- Détente
- Red scare
- McCarthy/McCarthyism
- HUAC and its impact on US
- Why did we want to help Europe after WWII?
- Origins of Korean War
- Result of Korean War
- Cause of Vietnam War
- Bay of Pigs incident
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- What is the purpose of the United Nations?
- Soviets in Eastern Europe- spread communism.
- Iron Curtain – spread of communism- containment – Nuclear Age
- Nazi war criminals on trial
- To ensure democracy
- U.S. foreign policy to stop the spread of communism
- Financial aid to Greece and Turkey. To help them be strong.
- Aid to Western Europe to strengthen economies
- Defensive alliance of Western Europe, USA, Canada.
- Defensive alliance of Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
- U.S. sends aid to Berlin.
- one nation falls to communism, other neighboring nations follow
- competition of weapons; who will have the most weapons
- East vs. Western Europe; dividing line between communists in the
- Easing or calming of tensions between USA and USSR
- fear of communism
- “witch hunt” for suspected communists in USA; Senator Joseph
- Congressional committee to find communists in US; focus on Hollywood and government workers; loss of jobs
- help economies resist communism
- spread communism from North to South, U.N. involved
- border remained at 38th parallel
- North invades South (domino theory) – US helps south.
- Cuba – JFK – failed to overthrow Communist leader, Fidel Castro
- US vs. USSR, Soviet bases in Cuba, blockade and removal. Success
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