Cold War Truman-Eisenhower Flashcards


Set Details Share
created 10 months ago by urmom300
8 views
show moreless
Page to share:
Embed this setcancel
COPY
code changes based on your size selection
Size:
X
Show:

1

DEMOBILIZATION

REDUCTION IN THE SIZE OF THE US ARMED FORCES AFTER THE WAR
FROM 12 TO 3 MILLION

2

IRAN CRISIS

USSR REFUSED TO WITHDRAW ITS TROOPS FOR OIL RICH IRAN AFTER WW II, US ENCOURAGED THEM TO LEAVE AND PROMISED THEM OIL DRILLING RIGHTS BUT LATER BACKED IRAN IN REFUSING THIS, USSR BECAME SUSPICIOUS OF US

3

COLD WAR

NOT A SHOOTING WAR, BUT A BATTLE OF DIPLOMACY, PROPAGANDA AND
NERVES AND THREATS OF WAR

4

STALIN

RUTHLESS COMMUNIST DICTATOR OF USSR WHO MURDERED MILLIONS OF HIS
OWN PEOPLE AND WAS THE ENEMY OF HUMAN FREEDOM

5

YALTA CONFERENCE

WARTIME 1945, MEETING BETWEEN, STALIN, CHURCHILL (ENGLAND) AND FDR. STALIN PROMISED TO ALLOW FREE ELECTIONS IN EASTERN EUROPE WHICH SOVIET ARMIES NOW OCCUPIED, HE LIED

6

CONTAINMENT

US POLICY DESIGNED TO HALT SOVIET EXPANSIONISM (TAKING OVER
LANDS) WITH FORCE IF NECESSARY, UNTIL THE USSR BECAME FRIENDLIER

7

GEORGE KENNAN

STATE DEPARTMENT EXPERT WHO THOUGHT UP THE CONTAINMENT
POLICY

8

BALTIC NATIONS

ESTONIA, LATVIA, AND LITHUANIA WERE ANNEXED (MADE PART OF) BY THE USSR AFTER THE WAR AGAINST THEIR WILL

9

EASTERN EUROPE

POLAND,
GERMANY, HUNGARY, ROMANIA, BULGARIA, EAST CZECHOSLOVAKIA AND ALBANIA-STALIN SET UP COMMUNIST GOVERNMENTS AND TOOK AWAY ALL FREEDOMS FROM THE PEOPLE THERE. SOVIET ARMIES HAD OCCUPIED THE COUNTRIES AFTER THE WAR

10

SATELLITES

EAST EUROPE 1945-1989, NATIONS THAT WERE OFFICIALLY INDEPENDENT BUT
CONTROLLED BY A FOREIGN POWER (USSR) ALSO CALLED "PUPPET" STATES

11

IRON CURTAIN

FORMER UK PRIME MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL'S TERM FOR THE USSR TAKING OVER EASTERN EUROPE AND CUTTING IT OFF FROM THE WEST (U.S. AND ITS ALLIES) AND TRYING TO EXPAND TO OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD

12

APPEASEMENT

PRE- WWII POLICY THAT TRIED USING DIPLOMACY TO STOP HITLER'S
AGGRESSION, IT FAILED AND THE U.S. WOULD NOT USE IT WHEN DEALING WITH THE USSR

13

GREECE AND TURKEY

1947, FIRST AREAS WHERE THE POLICY OF CONTAINMENT WAS USED
TO STOP COMMUNIST EXPANSION

14

TRUMAN DOCTRINE

U.S. WOULD ASSIST NATIONS FIGHTING COMMUNISM WITH MONEY
AND TROOPS

15

MARSHALL PLAN

A PROGRAM OF MASSIVE ECONOMIC AID TO EUROPE. WE SENT $12 BILLION TO 16 WEST EUROPEAN NATIONS TO BUILD UP THEIR WAR DESTROYED ECONOMIES. IT WAS A GREAT SUCCESS AS WESTERN EUROPE GREW STRONGER AND IT HELPED INCREASE U.S. TRADE

16

BERLIN BLOCKADE

1948, USSR BLOCKED ALL LAND ROUTES INTO WEST BERLIN WHICH
WAS DEEP IN SOVIET TERRITORY. THEY DID THIS TO FORCE THE WEST (U.S. AND ITS ALLIES) TO GET OUT OF THE 1/2 OF THE CITY THEY OCCUPIED (WEST BERLIN)

17

WEST

TERM FOR THE UNITED STATES AND ITS ALLIES VS. THE EAST WHICH IS THE USSR
AND ITS ALLIES

18

BERLIN AIRLIFT

1948-1949, TRUMAN ORDERED WEST BERLIN SUPPLIED BY AIR.
WARNED STALIN IF ONE U.S. SUPPLY PLANE WAS SHOT DOWN IT WOULD MEAN WAR. THE AIRLIFT LASTED A YEAR UNTIL THE RUSSIANS GAVE UP AND REOPENED THE LAND ROUTES

19

NATO

NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION, MILITARY ALLIANCE BETWEEN U.S. AND
IT ALLIES AGAINST THE USSR, IT WAS THE FIRST PEACE TIME US ALLIANCE

20

WARSAW PACT

USSR AND ITS ALLIES, MILITARY PACT AGAINST NATO, IT WAS DISBANDED
IN 1990 WITH THE END OF THE COLD WAR

21

RED CHINA

COMMUNIST REVOLUTION(CIVIL WAR)TOOK OVER CHINA IN 1949 AND TURNED IT INTO A COMMUNIST NATION

22

CHIANG KAI-SHEK

CORRUPT NATIONALIST LEADER OF CHINA WHO LOST THE CIVIL WAR AND FLED WITH HIS ARMY TO TAIWAN (FORMOSA) WHERE HE SET UP A NEW CHINESE GOVERNMENT WHICH THE US RECOGNIZED AS THE REAL CHINESE GOVERNMENT

23

MAO ZEDONG

COMMUNIST REVOLUTIONARY WHO BECAME DICTATOR OF CHINA IN 1949
AFTER A LONG, BLOODY CIVIL WAR

24

"LOSING CHINA"

TRUMAN WAS ATTACKED FOR NOT STOPPING THE RED TAKEOVER (IN REALITY THERE WAS LITTLE HE COULD DO), WHICH CONVINCED MANY AMERICANS THAT THERE WAS A COMMUNIST CONSPIRACY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD

25

KOREA

NATION CONTROLLED BY JAPAN UNTIL 1945 WHEN IT WAS DIVIDED INTO A COMMUNIST NORTH AND INDEPENDENT SOUTH ALONG THE 38TH PARALLEL

26

KOREAN WAR

IN JUNE OF 1950 NORTH KOREAN COMMUNIST TROOPS INVADED SOUTH KOREA AND DEFEATED THEIR ARMIES; U.S. SENT TROOPS UNDER THE UNITED NATIONS, DEFEATED THE NORTH KOREANS AND TOOK OVER MUCH OF NORTH KOREA

27

CHINESE INTERVENTION

END OF 1950, CHINA ENTERED THE KOREAN WAR AND DROVE
THE AMERICAN (UN) ARMIES BACK SOUTH OF THE 38TH PARALLEL

28

LIMITED WAR

TRUMAN'S CONCEPT OF FIGHTING THE KOREAN WAR, WITH LIMITED
OBJECTIVES, NOT FIGHTING A WAR TO TOTAL VICTORY AS IN WWI AND WW II

29

FIRING OF MACARTHUR

U.S. COMMANDING GENERAL IN KOREA, HE GOT INTO A DISPUTE WITH TRUMAN ON HOW THE WAR SHOULD BE WON, HE BELIEVED WE SHOULD INVADE CHINA, USE THE A-BOMB AND FIGHT FOR TOTAL VICTORY, TRUMAN FIRED HIM. MANY PEOPLE IN THE U.S. AGREED WITH MACARTHUR

30

PANMUNJOM

PLACE WHERE A CEASEFIRE WAS SIGNED ON JULY 27, 1953 ENDING THE
KOREAN WAR, ENDED IN A TIE OR STALEMATE NOTHING CHANGED