Postwar America test Q&A Latest Updates

Postwar America test Q&A Latest Updates marshall plan - american initiative to aid western europe at the end of ww2. this included rebuilding the economies containment - policy used to contain communism abroad. this was a response to the soviet union trying to enlarge the communist sphere of influence in eastern europe north atlantic treay organization - nato, defense alliance between the US and their allies. this agreement made members come to the aid if another was under attack. this ended american isolationism truman doctrine - policy that provided arms and financial help to countries trying to fight of communists (greece and turkey), united states pledged to stop communism losing china - unexpected loss of china to communist party blamed on the democrats cuban missile crisis - closest thing to nuclear war. soviets placed missiles in cuba, realizing they were so close to us the US started a 13 day standoff that no one would back down from. ended when kennedy blockaded cuba, causing soviets to withdraw missiles massive retaliation - eisenhowers military policy of relying on more nuclear weapons and fewer traditional forces berlin airlift - response to soviets blocking all entry into west germany, US and allies dropped food into berlin for more than a year hungarian uprising - revolt that swept across hungary, led to collapse of government, soviets crushed the revolt warsaw pact - alliance that included soviet union and its allies satellite nations - countries in eastern europe controlled by soviet union joe mccarthy - senator that got censured by senate for making claims about communists and soviet spies in federal government bay of pigs invasion - plan to train cuban exiles to take back cuba from communists, castro was captured and all exiles were killed U2 spy plane incident - soviets shot down american spy plane, just before a big summit to decrease cold war tensions flexible response - jfk's plan in response to massive retaliation, called for troops and special forces to confront other nations about communism trying not to cost a nuclear war military-industrial complex - growing relationship between military and defense industry, eisenhower was afraid that it would affect when america went to war