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The Second Red Scare
popularly known as macarthyism and was the fear that russia had spies in america that were selling secrets and people began acusing each other of being spies. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain symbolized the ideological fighting and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. -
Joseph McCarthy
Joe McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread Communist subversion -
CIA
The CIA Act authorized the CIA to receive and spend money, administer overseas employees, and protect the confidential nature of CIA activities. The CIA is allowed to purchase supplies and services using procedures established in the Armed Services Procurement Act of 1947, transfer money to and from other government agencies, have employees of other agencies work for the CIA, and spend CIA funds without the same restrictions placed on other agencies. -
Truman Doctorine
the Truman Doctorine was a policy set forth by the U.S. President Harry S. Truman in a speech on March 12, 1947 stating that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere. -
The Marshal Plan
The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was the large-scale American program to aid Europe where the United States gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet communism -
Berlin Blockade/ Airlift
The Berlin blockade was when the Soviets blocked the supply line from the allies in europe so as a result we started to fly supplies into the blocked off troops therefore being called the Berlin Airlift -
United Nations
The climax of this year was ultimately to be the ’General Declaration of Human Rights’, drafted by the UN Commission on Human Rights - a specialist organ of the Economic and Social Council - and unanimously accepted by the General Assembly on 10th December 1948." -
Korean War
The Korean war was a war between northern and southern Korea. North Korea was supported by russia and china that were both communist governments and south Korea was supported by the united states and the UN who fought for democracy. -
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a conflict between the non communist government of vietnam and the communist controlled vietcong who wanted Vietnam in a communist government -
Hawks and Doves
gAmerican responses developed combat North Vietnam's determined effort to unify Vietnam under Communist leadership, the Hawks and the Doves. The hawks and doves were different in more ways then one.
One side was in favor of a strong military strategy while Americans wanted to fight. But as the conflict dragged on, many other Americans begin to think that the idea that we would ever be able to wear down the North Vietnamese and win the war. -
Space Race
The Space Race was a mid-to-late 20th century competition between the Soviet Union and the United States for supremacy in space exploration. from 1957-1975, The Cold War rivalry between the two nations focused on attaining firsts in space exploration, which were seen as necessary for national security and symbolic of technological and ideological superiority. The Space Race involved pioneering efforts to launch artificial satellites, sub-orbital, orbital human spaceflight and trips to the moon. -
Sputnik
was the first artificial satellite to be put into Earth's orbit. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957 -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful attempt by United States-backed Cuban exiles to overthrow the government of the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Increasing friction between the U.S. government and Castro's leftist regime led President Dwight D. Eisenhower to break off diplomatic relations with Cuba in January 1961 -
Cuban missile crisis
tensions increased between cuba and the united state because the soviet union placed nukes on it saying that it was for the protection of cuba against any sort of attack from the countries in the western hemasphere.
