1950s Cold War

Stalin ordered a blockade in 1947, the US organized a massive humanitarian relief effort to supply and feed the city

• Berlin Airlift
• Berlin Wall
• Berlin Blockade
• Winter in Berlin

a confrontation between the free nations of the world (US) and the communists nations of the world (Soviets)

• Iron Curtain
• Cold War
• Missile Crisis
• Terrorism

Led a communist revolution in China in 1949.

• Chang Kai-Shek

• Mao Zedong

• Vladimir Lenin

• Kim Il-Sung

US would not attempt to overturn communism where it already existed, but they resolved not to allow it to spread

• Containment Policy
• One China Policy
• Vietnamization
• Domino Theory

agreed upon border between communists North Korea and democratic South Korea

• Seoul
• 38th Parallel
•  Pyongyang
• Incheon

federal employee’s were investigated for suspicious activities

• HUAC
• Loyalty Review Boards
• McCarthyism
• Suspicion Terms

beginning of a competition for weapons superiority after both the US and Soviet launch nuclear weapons

• Arms Race
• Nuclear Weapons
• Hydrogen Bomb
• Atomic Bomb

Massive aid program for war torn European countries.

• Berlin Airlift

• Marshall Plan

• Stalin Plan

• United Nations

North Korea ________ South Korea and began the Korean War

Congressional committee questioned actors, directors, writers and others about their possible Communists sympathies.

• House of Un-American Activities Committee

• House Investigative Committee

• Communist Finding Committee

• Reds Be Gone Committee