US 1302 Flashcard Quiz #7

The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.

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  Vietnam War (1955-1975)

• Korean War (1950-1953)

• Cold War (1947-1991)

• Gulf War (1990-1991)

The fear of communism, known as the Red Scare, led to a national witch hunt for suspected communist supporters.

• Red Guard

• Red Scare And Domestic Life In America

• Berlin Blockade

• McCarthyism/Red Scare

April 1, 1948 - Russia under Stalin blockaded Berlin completely in the hopes that the West would give the entire city to the Soviets to administer.

• German Democratic Republic

• Berlin Blockade

• Berlin Airlift

• Berlin Wall

Joint effort by the US and Britain to fly food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet blocked off all ground routes into the city

• Berlin Wall

• Berlin Blockade

• Berlin Airlift

• Marshall Plan

1947 policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology

• Eisenhower Doctrine

• Monroe Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world

• Imperialism

• Detente

• Containment

• Appeasement

the emigration of highly trained or intelligent people from a particular country.

• Chain Drain

• Brain Gain

• Brain Drain

• Marshall Plan

Secret effort of U.S. to gather and decode Soviet military messages. Revealed identities of many American spies, including Julius Rosenberg.

• Operation Paperclip Files

• Project Blue Book Reports

• Manhattan Project Documents

• Venona Papers (1943-1980)

Communist dictator of the Soviet Union

• Joseph Stalin

• Leon Trotsky

• Adolf Hitler

• Mao Zedong

Soviets told the Democratic Countries to withdraw their military forces from West Berlin. Refusing to leave they caused brain drain and mass emigration of East Berliners. The Soviets built the Berlin Wall to stop people fleeing to the west.

• Fall of the Berlin Wall

• Berlin Crisis of 1961

• Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962

• Vietnam War Escalation