Chapter 23/24 Reading Quiz

Containment

American diplomat, george kennan, advised truman admin. That he soviets could be dealt with as a normal government in his famous Long Telegram in 1946. This telegram laid the foundation for the policy of "containment" - the united stated committed itself to preventing any further expansion of soviet power

Iron Curtain

Churchill declared that an iron curtain had descended across Europe - partitioning the free west from communist east

GATT

General Agreements of Tariffs and Trade: proposed to stimulate freer trade among the participants, creating an enormous market for American Goods and investment

Mao Zedong and communist China

Led communists into victory in the Chinese civil war (serious setback for policy of containment).

Marshall plan

Offered a positive vision to go along with containment. It aimed to combat the idea that capitalism was in decline and communism he wave of the future. Against hunger, poverty, and chaos. Envisioned a New Deal for Europe, an extension to that continent of Roosevelts four freedoms. One of the most successful foreign aid plans in history.

Truman Doctrine

President fully embraces the Cold War as the foundation of American foreign policy and describes it as a worldwide struggle over the future of freedom. Est. the "guiding spirit of American foreign policy"

Berlin Blockade

The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany. Eventually, the western powers instituted an airlift that lasted nearly a year and delivered much-needed supplies and relief to West Berlin. Coming just three years after the end of World War II, the blockade was the first major clash of the Cold War and foreshadowed future conflict over the city of Berlin.

NSC - 68

This 1950 manifesto described the Cold War as an epic struggle between "the idea of freedom" and "the idea of slavery under the grim oligarchy of the kremlin". One of the most important policy statements of the early Cold War. Helped spur a dramatic increase in American military spending.