Cold War
Marcus Collins and Nathan Adams
General information of the cold war
- The United States and The Soviet Union was the two super powers.
- the United States, its NATO allies and the Soviet Unions is Warsaw Pact are allies
- The Iron curtain is the notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989.
containment policy
- A United States foreign doctrine adopted by the Harry S. Truman administration in 1947, operating on the principle that communist governments will eventually fall apart as long as they are prevented from expanding their influence.
- The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II..
- truman doctrine: he principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrectio
Berlin Crisis (Berlin Airc
Berlin airlift definition. A military operation in the late 1940's that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany, which at that time surrounded West Berlin ( see Berlin wall ), had cut off its supply routes.
Korean War/Conflict
second red scare
The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. It was originally created in 1938 to uncover citizens with Nazi ties within the United States.
McCarthyism: a vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy in the period 1950–54. Many of the accused were blacklisted or lost their jobs, although most did not in fact belong to the Communist Party.a vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy in the period 1950–54. Many of the accused were blacklisted or lost their jobs, although most did not in fact belong to the Communist Party.
Federal employees were analyzed to determine whether they were sufficiently loyal to the government, and the House Un-American Activities Committee, as well as U.S. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, investigated allegations of subversive elements in the government and the Hollywood film industry. The climate of fear and repression linked to the Red Scare finally began to ease by the late 1950s.
Arms race, Suburbs (Levittown) and Interstate highway system
- The most serious Cold War confrontation between the United States and the USSR that took place in October, 1962. The U.S. discovered that the Soviets were in the process of positioning nuclear missiles in Communist Cuba. The United States sends naval blockade to stop Soviet ships carrying missiles to Cuba.
- Highways connecting the 48 contiguous states and most of the cities with populations above 50,000, begun in the 1950's and estimated to carry about a fifth of the nation's traffic.
- Levittown, Long Island, the most famous American postwar suburban development, was a household name, the "Exhibit A" of suburbia. It came on the eve of the baby boom and just before the 1948 Housing Bill liberalized lending, allowing anyone to buy a home with 5 percent down and extending mortgage terms to 30 years.