Chapter 25-27 Vocabulary

Hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. during the Cold War

• Second Red Scare

• House Un-American Activities Committee

• Korean War

• Containment

A government committee which investigated alleged disloyalty and rebel activities on the part of private citizens suspected of having Communist ties

• Vietnam War

• Communism

• House Un-American Activities Committee

• Blacklist

List of people who lost their jobs and were refused future jobs because they refused to testify or were identified as present or former Communist Party members

• Cold War

• Blacklist

• McCarthyism

• Bay of Pigs Invasion

A campaign of sometimes false allegations against communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy in the period 1950–54

• McCarthyism

• Blacklist

• NATO

• Containment

War fought between Soviet-backed Communist North Korea and U.S.-backed South Korea from 1950-1953.

• Vietnam War

• Korean War

• Bay of Pigs Invasion

• Cold War

Failed CIA operation to overthrow Cuba’s Communist leader, Fidel Castro, by landing 1200 Cuban exiles in the Bay of Pigs. 

• Korean War

• Bay of Pigs Invasion

• Warsaw Pact

• McCarthyism

War fought between Soviet-backed Communist North Vietnam and U.S.-backed South Vietnam from 1955-1975.

• Vietnam War

• Korean War

• Cold War

• Marshall Plan

The belief that the “fall” of one country to Communism would cause Communism to spread to other neighboring countries.

• Containment

• Marshall Plan

• Domino Theory

• Communism

The state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet Union and the U.S. from 1945 to 1990.

• Iron Curtain

• Cold War

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

U.S. policy intended to prevent Communism from spreading to other countries.

• Communism

• McCarthyism

• Containment

• Domino Theory