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What was the purpose of the SALT and START treaty?
To limit the number of nuclear weapons held by the most powerful countries.
What did SALT stand for?
Strategic Arms Limitations Talks
What was the START treaty?
Strategic Arms Reducation Treaty
It was the powerful weapons which made the Cold War arms race terrifying.
What is meant by the arms race?
Stocking nuclear weapons
What was the Warsaw Pact?
an alliance dedicated to the security of communist nations in Europe during the Cold War.
During the Cuban Revolution political freedom was _____
restricted
China provided thousands of troops to North Korea during what war?
The Korean War
What was “The Red Scare”?
the fear of communists in the United States.
Gorbachev’s call for change to the East German government resulted in _____
the banning of Soviet publications.
Gorbachev’s perestroika resulted in shortages and prices soaring.
Explain perestroika.
Capitalistic economic reforms to give people more choices
What was the Marshall Plan?
it offered assistance, from the US, to war-torn Europe after WWII.
What were Mao Zedong’s social reform programs?
The Great Leap Forward and The Cultural Revolution.
In the summer of 1950, the North Koreans attempted to do what?
overrun the South Koreans, and it was stopped by the United Nations at the Pusan Perimeter.
What was the American strategy, détente?
to hold the Soviets through diplomatic agreements.
China accelerated its acceptance of capitalism after ____
the Soviet Union split and communism was defeated in Eastern Europe.
What was Parliamentary democracy?
the type of government adopted by Japan after WWII.
The Soviet Union’s “Vietnam” was
the war in Afghanistan
The United States established diplomatic relations with China in 1970 because _____
they wanted to isolate the Soviets between NATO and a hostile China.
Who committed genocide in Cambodia?
Khmer Rouge
The agricultural communes were established to
make agriculture more efficient
The main goal of the National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) was to
overthrow South Vietnam's government.
The Tet Offensive turned American public opinion ____
AGAINST the Vietnam War
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