VUS. 12 Part I Vocab

Swift military action against aggressive nation.

• NATO

• Fidel Castro

• Massive Retaliation

• Warsaw Pact

invasion of Cuba to overthrow the Communist government

• ”Bay of Pigs”

• McCarthyism

• Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

• Cuban Missile Crisis

accusing people of being Communist

• ”Bay of Pigs”

• McCarthyism

• Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

• Cuban Missile Crisis

containment of communism

• The Cold War

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• Truman Doctrine

Defense alliance between US and Western Europe to prevent a Soviet invasion of Western Europe.

• The Cold War

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• Truman Doctrine

War of “words” between U.S. and USSR.

• The Cold War

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• Truman Doctrine

passed atomic bomb secrets to Soviets

• ”Bay of Pigs”

• McCarthyism

• Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

• Cuban Missile Crisis

USSR and their allies in Eastern Europe

• The Cold War

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• Truman Doctrine

Soviet missiles in Cuba

• ”Bay of Pigs”

• McCarthyism

• Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

• Cuban Missile Crisis

led Cuban communist revolution in 1959

• NATO

• Fidel Castro

• Massive Retaliation

• Warsaw Pact