SuperPower Review

time period of tension between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. following WWII

term coined by Churchill, describing Soviet influence and control in Eastern Europe

policy of containment, outlined by President Truman

plan by George Marshall to send $13 Billion in aid to Europe after WWII

after a Soviet blockade of West Berlin, 318 days of flying in supplies and food to the city

communism is seen as a disease, we must fight the spread of communism

1950-1953, North Korea invades the South, UN resolution to push then back, MacArthur gets fired b/c he wants to invade China and use nuclear weapons, ends in a Stalemate around the 38th parallel with a DMZ

first satellite in space, launched by the U.S.S.R., begins the Space Race

took over after FDR, President near the end of WWII, Berlin Airlift, beginning of War in Korea, desegregated the army

WWII hero, elected President in the middle of the Korean war, ends the war in stalemate

U.S. President 1961-1963, assassinated in Dallas, President during the Bay of Pigs, and Cuban Missile Crisis, sent military advisors to Vietnam

standoff between the U.S. and U.S.S.R., nuclear missiles were in Cuba pointed at U.S., and in Turkey pointed at U.S.S.R., agree to remove both and avoided nuclear war (JFK/Khrushchev)

President who took over after JFK was assassinated, tried to end poverty with his Great Society reforms, sent troops to Vietnam after the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, escalated the war

protests at home in response to what was happening in Vietnam

1950-1973, former French colony was split into North (Communist) and South (Democratic) after WWII, the North invades the south and a revolution ensues for a long time.  U.S. never has a formal declaration of war, but drafts and sends thousands of Americans to fight. The war ended in an armistice, eventually the South will fall to Communism.