The Cold War and American Culture

Brinksmanship

A policy known as brinksmanship developed, in which each side would push the other side to the "brink" of war, in order to show that their threats were serious. The goal was to get the enemy to back down, making your side seem more powerful, without actually going to war.

The Warsaw Pact

Alliance formed on May 14, 1955. Warsaw was the communist capital of Poland. The Warsaw Pact made up of communist states, like Poland, USSR, East Germany, etc.

Competing Economic Systems for the Major Powers

Communism: Communism is an economic system in which the people as a whole own all the natural resources, factories, mines and the land of their country. In theory, all citizens profit from the resources of a country. In practice, the government owns everything, sets all prices, employs everyone, and distributes all profits. Capitalism: Capitalism is an economic system in which citizens own private property and are entitled to profit from it. In a capitalist country, almost all the natural resources, factories, mines and land are owned by individuals. They keep the profits from what they own.

How the Cold War Ended?

Ended 1991. During 1989 and 1990, the Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe. In late 1991 the Soviet Union itself dissolved into its component republics. With stunning speed, the Iron Curtain was lifted and the Cold War came to an end.

NATO Pact

Formed April 4, 1949, means North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the thing NATO countries have in common is an agreement to mutual defence in response to an attack by any external party, countries mostly to the west of the Iron Curtain. Ex: US, UK, Belguim, etc.

Brezhnev Doctrine

If anyone threatened the communist party's monopoly in Soviet satellite nations, the USSR would interfere with political and military force. Doctrine expounded by Leonid Brezhnev in November 1968

How did rock 'n roll help create the generation gap?

Many adults may have disapproved rock 'n roll because of the dance moves and the generation gap it presented the separation between children and their parents, parents condemned rock 'n roll as loud, mindless, and dangerous. This disapproval led to the generation gap because parents were feeling separated from their children.

M. A. D.

Mutually Assured Destruction

What were some medical advances in the 1950's?

Penicillin was a big medical advance in the 1950's which can be used in the treatment of chronic disease.

Competitions Advances

Space Race. Russians was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for supremacy in spaceflight capability. Russians first in space with Sputnik, a satellite​. United States first to land on the moon. Countries were creating more powerful and bigger bombs, to see which country was more powerful.

How did the television show ' the Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" reflect idealised family?

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet reflected an Ideal American Family because most fathers worked while mothers stayed home all rich and fancy with the kids.

How did the Cold War Affect life in the 1950's?

The Cold War affected life in the 1950's because everyday everyone was frightened of not knowing if a nuclear war would start or not, fears of communist infiltration made 1950's time of contrast, the United States needed someone who made them fell safe.

Iron Curtain

The division of European countries into Eastern communist vs. Western capitalist Nations on the West of the "iron curtain" joined an alliance of capitalist, democratic countries. Nations on the East of the "iron curtain" joined an alliance of communist countries

What event made Americans fearful of a nuclear war?

The event that made Americans fearful of a nuclear attack by the soviets was when Soviets successfully tested a Hydrogen bomb (H-Bomb) in 1953.

Nuclear Proliferation

The main danger from conflicts during the Cold War was nuclear proliferation—the spread of nuclear technology—and the nuclear arms race between the USA and the USSR !

Major Powers #1 and #2

The two major powers were The United States and The USSR

Hot Wars within the Cold War? (explain why the Major Powers would get involved)

Vietnam War was a Cold War conflict Communist North vs Non-Communist South, Super powers would get involved to ensure the stop of the spread of communism, while the other side would push to spread communism.

Rock 'n Roll

a type of popular dance music originating in the 1950s, characterised by a heavy beat and simple melodies. Rock and roll was an amalgam of black rhythm and blues and white country music, usually based on a twelve-bar structure and an instrumentation of guitar, bass, and drums.

Generation Gap

differences of outlook or opinion between people of different generations.

According to Vincent Tarantino. what causes race disturbances?

discrimination of job differences because of colour, segregation and giving them the idea to feel like lesser of a person based on colour.

Perestroika

economic restructuring (citizens can own their own business)

Political and Economical Restructuring (end of the Cold War)

greater freedom of speech, so publications and individuals could say what they thought without fear of arrest • political prisoners were released, since their "crimes" of speaking against the government were no longer illegal • inflation skyrocketed and black markets flourished • multi-party elections began

Duck and Cover Drills

is a method of personal protection against the effects of a nuclear explosion. The purpose of the "duck-and-cover drills were to give children a chance at surviving a nuclear blast.

Bomb Shelters

is any kind of a civil defence structure designed to provide protection against the effects of a bomb. A fallout shelter is an enclosed space specially designed to protect occupants from radioactive debris or fallout resulting from a nuclear explosion. Many such shelters were constructed as civil defence measures during the Cold War.

Gasnost

political openness (freedom of speech and of the press)

fallout

radioactive particles that are carried into the atmosphere after a nuclear explosion or accident and gradually fall back as dust or in precipitation.

The Cold War (what was it?, How long did it last?)

the rivalry between the communist USSR (and its allies) and the democratic, capitalist USA (and its allies) between 1945 and 1991, in which both contributed to wars in other countries to gain allies.