Chapter 23

Preventing the spread of communism worldwide

"The policy of containment can be best described as"

Truman ordered that supplies be brought to Berlin via an airlift

How did the United States responded to Joseph stallings blockade around Berlin?

Fascism, Nazism & Communism

In the 1950s what did the term "totalitarianism" describe

Women's suffrage

Japanese constitution, which Americans had written, provided for the first time in Japanese history

The postwar union campaign in the south

Operation Dixie was:

Separated the free west from the communist east.

The "iron curtain"

Especially evident in the movies

The impact of the cold war on the American culture was

Funded artistic publications, concerts, performances, and exhibits

To wage the cultural Cold War, the Central intelligence agency and defense department

American diplomats valued nations like France more highly for their alliance in the European Cold War

Why did the United States back away from pressuring to European allies to grant self government to colonies in Asia and Africa?

Historically, both nations had never shared long-term interests or values

Why was it inevitable that the United States and the Soviet union would eventually come into conflict after the war ended