History Study Guide
history study guide
Vocabulary
● satellite nations countries dependent upon and dominated by the Soviet Union.
(Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Poland)
● containment an effort to block the Soviet’s attempts to spread their influence by creating alliances and supporting weaker countries.
● cold war the conflicting U.S. and soviet aims in Eastern Europe the state of hostility short of direct military confrontation that developed between the two superpowers.
● truman doctrine truman asked congress for $400 million in economic and military aid for Greece and Turkey, and declared that the U.S. should support free people throughout the world who were resisting takeovers by armed minorities. Response to kennan's long telegram speech
● marshall plan secretary of state George Marshall proposed the U.S. provide aid to all european nations that needed it. said this move was directed for hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos. nations receiving aid had to agree to remove trade barriers and to cooperate economically.
This and this conflicted directly with demands for open markets and cooperation dictated by the Marshall Plan.
● berlin airlift started by American and British officials, to fly food and supplies into West
Berlin.
● North Atlantic Treaty Organization ten western european nations that formed a defensive military alliance.
● house committee on unamerican activities developed from a congressional committee created to search out disloyalty before WWII.
● hollywood ten ten unfriendly witnesses that decided not to cooperate w/ their group because they believed the hearings were unconstitutional.
● blacklist a list of people who were condemned for having a communist background.
● alger hiss a former state department official accused of spying for the Soviet Union, 1st muricans executed fo espionage. proved guilty.
● ethel and julius rosenberg minor activists in
Vocabulary
● satellite nations countries dependent upon and dominated by the Soviet Union.
(Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Poland)
● containment an effort to block the Soviet’s attempts to spread their influence by creating alliances and supporting weaker countries.
● cold war the conflicting U.S. and soviet aims in Eastern Europe the state of hostility short of direct military confrontation that developed between the two superpowers.
● truman doctrine truman asked congress for $400 million in economic and military aid for Greece and Turkey, and declared that the U.S. should support free people throughout the world who were resisting takeovers by armed minorities. Response to kennan's long telegram speech
● marshall plan secretary of state George Marshall proposed the U.S. provide aid to all european nations that needed it. said this move was directed for hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos. nations receiving aid had to agree to remove trade barriers and to cooperate economically.
This and this conflicted directly with demands for open markets and cooperation dictated by the Marshall Plan.
● berlin airlift started by American and British officials, to fly food and supplies into West
Berlin.
● North Atlantic Treaty Organization ten western european nations that formed a defensive military alliance.
● house committee on unamerican activities developed from a congressional committee created to search out disloyalty before WWII.
● hollywood ten ten unfriendly witnesses that decided not to cooperate w/ their group because they believed the hearings were unconstitutional.
● blacklist a list of people who were condemned for having a communist background.
● alger hiss a former state department official accused of spying for the Soviet Union, 1st muricans executed fo espionage. proved guilty.
● ethel and julius rosenberg minor activists in