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The Cold War - 24 Cards

What is the United Nations?

An organization to prevent future global wars

Who is part of the Security Council?

USA

Great Britain

France

China

USSR

What are the Peacekeeper for the UN?

The military force to keep nations in check

What is UNESCO?

An international organization to protect cultural landmarks

What is UNICEF?

An international organization to help children

What is Marshall Plan?

A plan for the US to provide financial aid to European countries

What is the Cold War?

Tension and conflict between the United States and the USSR

What is the Economic Miracle?

Reconstruction and Redevelopment of the economy of West Germany

What did the Soviet Union create in return to the Marshall Plan?

COMECON

What is the Iron Curtain?

A metaphorical saying by Winston Churchill about the separation between East and West Europe

What is the Berlin Wall?

A wall built in 1961 to separate East and West Berlin

What is the USSR’s equivalent to the USA’s NATO?

The Warsaw Pact

What’s the Nuclear Age?

A nation’s fear of being bombed by an atomic bomb

What is the MADman’s Theory?

The threat of countries being destroyed kept both from attacking

Who is Nikita Khrushchev?

The new premier in Russia who De-Stalinized Russia

What was the Prague of Spring?

A nonviolent resistance in which the people wanted to gain more freedoms

Who proposed Socialism with a Human Face?

Alexander Dubcek

What was the Solidarity Movement and who led it?

An independent labor union led by Lech Walesa

Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?

The new Russian Leader in 1985 famous for his reforms

What is the Glasnost reform?

The concept of Openness

What is the Perestrokia Reform?

The reform allowing some things to be owned privately

What are the main 5 reasons the Soviet Union Collapsed?

Mikhail Gorbachev

Economic Inefficiency

Excessive Military Spending

Rising Nationalism

The Revolutions of 1989

What year did Poland declare independence from the East Bloc?

1989

What is the Velvet Revolution and the Velvet Divorce?

The Velvet Revolution is when Czechoslovakia split from the USSR and the Velvet Divorce is when the Czech Republic and Slovakia broke up