COLD WAR F here I come

Berlin Airlift

Blockade of Berlin Germany U.S. and British planes airlift 1.5 million after 200,000 + flights soviet union lifts blockade then soviets got atomic bomb

Truman Doctrine

Greece and Turkey in danger of falling to communist insurgents, so he requested $400 million from Congress to aid both countries and it was successful

United states, Belgium, Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, 1952: Greece & Turkey, 1955: West Germany, 1983: Spain

NATO consists of....

no opposing parties

One of the key characteristics of communism was

McCarthy Internal Act

President Truman was against this and vetos it congress over road it making it a law

Winston Churchill

The now-famous "iron curtain" speech was given by

United Nation

The world peacekeeping body formed after World War II

Containment

United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. It was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge its communist sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, and Vietnam.

Communism and protection

What did USSR want?

Democracy

Will of the people USA wanted this

Joseph McCarthy

goal: get rid of all communism

Marshall Plan

proposes massive aid program to rebuild Europe from ravages of World was II

Hollywood Ten

spoke out against investigations and received jail sentences and banned from working

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

taken to trial and accused of selling nuclear secrets to soviets

Greece

All of the following were considered satellite nations of the Soviet Union except Greece; Poland; Hungary; Czechoslovakia

China

All of the following were members of NATO except.... China; France; the Netherlands; the United States