US HIST II – 26.1 The Cold War Vocabulary
Origins of the Cold War
United Nations (1945)
Potsdam Conference (16 July – 2 Aug. 1945)
• division of Germany/Berlin
o Federal Republic of Germany (West)
o German Democratic Republic (East)
satellite nation
containment
communism
Cold War
• “iron curtain”
o Winston Churchill @ Westminster College
§ socialism
ú “Sinews of Peace” address (5 March 1946)
• Stettin on the Baltic
• Trieste on the Adriatic
Truman Doctrine (12 March 1947)
Marshall Plan/European Recovery Program (1947)
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Berlin Airlift (1947-48)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1949)
Arab-Israeli War (1948)
• David Ben Gurion
Free Response Question(s):
How did the US contend with Soviet aggression following WWII?
US HIST II – 26.2 The Cold War Vocabulary
The Cold War Heats Up
Republic of China
• Chiang Kai-Shek
• Taiwan exile (1949)
People’s Republic of China (1949)
• Mao Zedong
• “the Bamboo Curtain”
38th Parallel (1950)
• Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)
o Kim Il Sung
• Republic of Korea (ROK)
o Syngman Rhee
the Korean War (1950-53)
• Pusan perimeter
• “police action”
o GEN Douglas MacArthur
§ Inchon landings
§ Yalu River
o GEN Matthew B. Ridgway
§ stalemate
o Panmunjom
§ armistice
§ demilitarized zone (DMZ)
Free Response Question(s):
Why did the US engage in a “hot war” in Korea 1950-53?
US HIST II – 26.3 The Cold War Vocabulary
The Cold War at Home
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Hollywood Ten
• blacklist
Alger Hiss
Ethel & Julius Rosenberg†
2nd Red Scare
• McCarran (Internal Security) Act (1950)
• SEN Joseph McCarthy (R, WI)
o McCarthyism
Federal Civil Defense Administration
• CONELRAD
• “Duck & Cover”
• fallout shelter
Free Response Question(s):
How did the US react to the threat of communist infiltration and
attack, 1946-60s?
US HIST II – 26.4 The Cold War Vocabulary
Two Nations Live on the Edge
H-Bomb (mega-ton)
• Teller-Ulam design
o “Ivy Mike” (1 Nov. 1952)
• mutually-assured destruction (MAD)
o Andrei Sakharov’s “Third Idea”
§ RDS-37 (22 Nov. 1955)
• escalation
o arms race
PRES Dwight D. Eisenhower (R, NY)
SEC John Foster Dulles
• brinkmanship
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Warsaw Pact (1955)
the Suez Crisis (1956)
• PRES Gamal Abdel-Nasser
• Eisenhower Doctrine
Hungarian Uprising (1956)
PREM Nikita Khrushchev
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the Space Race
“the spirit of Geneva”
o U-2 Incident (1 May 1960)
§ CAPT Francis Gary Powers
Free Response Question(s):
How did the actions of both superpowers escalate Cold War
tensions?