Untitled Haiku Deck
Published on Apr 27, 2016
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Cold War Vocabulary
Arms Race- Cold war competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union to build up their respective armed forces and weapons
Fallout Shelters-enclosed space specially designed to protect occupants from radioactive debris or fallout resulting from a nuclear explosion.
House Un-American Activities Committee-
NATO- North Atlantic Treaty Organization; organization of democratic countries
Marshall Plan- plan in which the US gave economic aid to eastern European countries like Greece in order to prevent them from falling to communism
Berlin Airlift-the USSR set up a blockade of Berlin; the US resonded by dropping supplies by air to the East Germans
Warsaw Pact- organization of communist countries set up to counter NATO
Truman Doctrine- issued with a foreign policy goal of containing the spread of communism
Joseph McCarthy- senator who encouraged the red scare in the US
Bay of Pigs- an embarissing attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro that was organized by the US
Containment-policy of keeping communism from spreading
Photo by Roman Harak
38th Parallel- line of latitude that separated North and South Korea
Alger Hiss- A former State Department official who was accused of being a Communist spy and was convicted of perjury. The case was prosecuted by Richard Nixon.
Brinksmanship- A 1956 term used by Secretary of State John Dulles to describe a policy of risking war in order to protect national interests
U-2 Incident- The incident when an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union.
Rosenburg Case- A court case involving Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, an American couple who were executed in 1953 as spies for the Soviet Union
Hollywood Blacklist- A list of people or products viewed with suspicion or disapproval
Iron Curtain- A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region
Space Race- The battle between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to be the "best" in exploring space.
NASA- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Suez Canal Crisis- A major international incident that arose in 1956 from the decision by Gamal A. Nasser of Egypt to nationalize the Suez Canal, which long had been controlled by Great Britain.
Photo by blacque_jacques
Douglas MacArthur- an American general who commanded the Southwest Pacific in World War II
Photo by Marion Doss
Geneva Accords- arranged a settlement which brought about an end to the First Indochina War. The agreement was reached at the end of the Geneva Conference.
17th Parallel-was the provisional military demarcation line between North and South Vietnam established by the Geneva Accords of 1954.
John Foster Dulles- served as U.S. Secretary of State under Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)- used spies, carried out covert, or secret operations or
overthrow governments unfriendly to the U.S.
Photo by Truthout.org
Massive Retaliation- a military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which a state commits itself to retaliate in much greater force in the event of an attack.
SEATO- international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, or Manila Pact
Fidel Castro- a Cuban politician and revolutionary who governed the Republic of Cuba as its Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976
Photo by JBrazito
