Unit 7 Cold War

Cold War

-war with little to no fighting

-ideological war b/t USA & USSR; capitalism vs. communism

-race that developed b/t the US and USSR to see who could build the bigger sphere of influence

Proxy war

a war where 2 opposing countries support combatants that serve their interests instead of waging war directly

Truman Doctrine

1947 aid to Greece & Turkey to stop them from becoming communist

Marshall Plan

• A plan to rebuild Western Europe’s economies, infrastructure, & militaries

  • likely created competition

Iron Curtain

Soviet block of Eastern Europe countries from the Soviet Union

Decolonization

process by which colonies become independent of the colonizing country

Cultural Revolution

-1966-76

-Mass mobilization of urban Chinese youth inaugurated by Mao Zedong attempting to prevent development of a bureaucratic Soviet style of communism

-an attempt to create a common national identity, which caused a massive upheaval and crisis

-tried to abolish old customs, culture, habits, and ideas and intellectuals and Mao’s political enemies

Mikhail Gorbachev

-wanted to instill some elements of capitalism

-reforms led to the breakup of the Soviet Union

-war ended in a stalemate with the country still divided at the 38th parallel

-”loss” of China to communism and the stalemate led Americans to become increasingly paranoid about the spread of communism

-costed Truman popularity

The significance of the Korean conflict as it pertains to containment

Mao Zedong & Communists won the Civil War against the Kuomintang

How did Mao Zedong rise to power?