APUSH- Period 8 Frame 1

Winston Churchill’s speech that reviewed the international response to Russian aggression

provided for a centralized Department of Defense to coordinate the operations of the Army, Navy, and Air Force; the creation of the NSC to coordinate the making of foreign policy in the Cold War, and the creation of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to employ the spies to gather information on foreign gov’ts.

US should lead non-Soviet world and oppose Soviet expansion everywhere it existed, also expand US military power dramatically

The U. S. should support free peoples throughout the world who were resisting takeovers by armed minorities or outside pressures…We must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.

proposed massive and systematic American economic aid to Europe to revitalize the European economies after WWII and help prevent the spread of Communism.

USSR response to US, UK, Fr merge German “Western zones” into the West German Republic. Stalin cut off all supplies to West Berlin

the Soviets cut off all access by land to the German city. Truman ordered U.S. planes to fly in supplies to the people of West Berlin; lasted 11 months.

Soviets detonate first A bomb and China becomes a communist government

which was established in the 1920s (fall of Qing Dynasty) was a semi-democratic Nationalist regime under Chang Kai Shek who will be eventually exiled to Taiwan

Resulted by the end of 1949 when all of mainland China had fallen to the Communist forces. The U.S. continued to support Chiang & refused to recognize Mao Zedong’s regime

Leader of the communist revolution in China

US Military leader in Japan

10 European nations joined the U.S. and Canada in a military alliance for defending all members from outside attack.

a military alliance for the defense of the Communist states of Eastern Europe.

1954 meeting to end Korean Conflict and attempt resolution to dividing Vietnam

Leader of Nationalist/Communist North Korea with strong Soviet support

On June 25, 1950, the North invaded the South. Truman ordered U.N forces to defend the South against the invaders (most troops being Americans). In November 1950, masses of Chinese troops crossed the border, overwhelmed U.N. forces in one of the worst defeats in U.S. military history, and drove them out of the North