Cold War Vocabulary Visual Preview Review

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Francis Gary Powers- Pilot who was flying the U-2 spy plane that was shot down over USSR. He was initially sentenced to prison, but was later released.

U-2 Incident-The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on May 1, 1960 (during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower) when an American U-S spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. At first, the United States government denied the plane's purpose and mission, but was forced to admit its role as a covert surveillance aircraft when the Soviet government produced its remains (largely intact) and surviving pilot, Gary Powers.

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HUAC-House of Un-American Activities is best known for investigating communism in America and specifically within the film industry.

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Joseph McCarthy & McCarthyism-A senator from Wisconsin who made unsupported accusations that that person was a communist. Eventually, his wild accusations caught up with him and he was ousted from his govt. position. He also was an alcoholic. (Think of the Salem Witch Trials here)

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Nikita Khrushchev-Political leader of USSR who succeeded Stalin, like McCarthy was an alcoholic who brought the world very close to WW III/Nuclear War.

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Korean War-The Korean War refers to a period of military conflict between North Korean and South Korean regimes, with major hostilities lasting from June 25, 1950 until the armistice signed on July 27, 1953.

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Mao Zedong--Communist leader of China who was once quoted as saying to the U.S. “your nuclear weapons are like a paper tiger”, he along almost brought the US into another nuclear war.

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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg-were American communists who were executed after having been found guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage. The charges were in relation to the passing of information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union.

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Warsaw Pact – pro Soviet countries – USSR, and all countries controlled by the USSR.

COMMUNISM

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H-Bomb-1952 Weapon of mass destruction that was 25-50 times more powerful than the original bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. After a test of its power by the US, its byproduct traveled around the world and hand devastating environmental effects. It was estimated that the explosion of 100 H-bombs could have made life in this very world unsustainable.