The Cold War Ch. 19

Warsaw Pact

A military alliance between the Soviet Union and its satellite nations

several Eastern European countries.

After the war, the Soviet Union quickly took control of

Marshall Plan

American financial aid program for helping Western Europe recover

The Soviet Union

Americans thought the invasion by North Korea was initiated by

Poland

At Yalta, Roosevelt and Churchill clashed with Stalin over his refusal to allow elections in

HUAC

Committee that probed the government for Communist infiltration

Cold War

Competition between U.S. and the Soviet Union for power and influence in the world.

Satellite Nations

Countries subject to Soviet domination

political conflict and military tensions.

For nearly 50 years, the Cold War was characterized by

Korean War

Fought after Korea divided (North- Communist, South- Democratic)

He gave approval for the U.S. development of an even more powerful bomb.

How did Truman react to the USSR's deployment of an atomic bomb?

38th Parrallel

Line divides North and South Korea

Berlin airlift

Means of transporting supplies around a Soviet blockade

Chinese Civil War

One major event that led up to the Korean War was

Containment

U.S. policy of resistance to Soviet attempts at expanding communism.

The protection of the rest of Asia

What did some members of Congress call for after China fell to Mao Zedong's forces?

To create a stable democracies that could resist communism

What was one goal of the Marshall Plan?

Some people's civil rights were violated

What was one result of the federal government's hunt for Communists?

Japan

Which country controlled Korea for much of the first half of the twentieth century?

To protect themselves from possible Soviet aggression

Why did a number of nations join to form NATO in 1949?

To close an escape route to the West

Why did the Soviet Union try to force the Allies to abandon West Berlin?

A Southern pro-American government and a Northern pro-Communist government

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Military-Industrial Complex

Permanent mobilization of military

Iron Curtain

Philosophical "wall" of Soviet domination and oppression.

pressure by Communists on Turkey and Greece.

President Truman issued the Truman Doctrine in response to

threaten his nation again.

Stalin was determined that Germany would never

Protect its own interests.

The Soviet Union wanted to rebuild after the war in ways that would