1950s Cold War

Imaginary wall separating Soviet satellite countries from the west

• Iron Curtain

• Red Scare

• Berlin Wall

• Communist Stonewall

Based on the concept of collective security which each member pledged to defend each other if attacked.

• SEATO

• Alliance

• Partnership

• NATO

Led a communist revolution in China in 1949.

• Chang Kai-Shek

• Mao Zedong

• Vladimir Lenin

• Kim Il-Sung

Massive aid program for war torn European countries.

• Berlin Airlift

• Marshall Plan

• Stalin Plan

• United Nations

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

designed to limit retaliation from an enemy for fear of nuclear attack

• Hydrogen Bomb
• Deterrent
• Arms Race
• Mutually Assured Destruction

Congressmen created fears of a communist conspiracy to overthrow the American government by infiltrating the US State Department with spies

• Communist witch hunt
• HUAC
• McCarthyism
• Senate Hearings

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

US President offered military aid to Greece and Turkey when communist rebels threatened these two countries

• Eisenhower Doctrine
• Nixon Doctrine
• Truman Doctrine
• Roosevelt Doctrine

Soviet Union reacted to creation of Western European alliances by unifying Eastern European satellite countries

• NATO
• SEATO
• Warsaw Pact
• Moscow Pals