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Cold War
a struggle over political and economic differences/indifferences; a state of hostility without direct military contact.
Communism
State controls all property and economic activity.
Capitalism
Private citizens control economic activity.
Totalitarian Government
A form of government where there are no opposing parties to the party in power.
Democratic Government
A form of government where there are competing parties.
D-Day
The landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.
Yalta Conference
Churchill, FDR, and Stalin meet at a Russian resort town near the Black Sea.
Agree to divide Germany into four zones of occupation.
United States, Great Britain, France, Soviet Union
What four countries received a German zone of occupation?
United Nations
created to promote peace and protect nations from aggression.
Located in New York City
Security Council
11-member body of the United Nations.
United States, Great Britain, France, China, Russia
Who are the FIVE permanent members of the United Nations?
Satellite Nations
Countries that were dominated under the Soviet Union.
Potsdam Conference
Great Britain, United States, and USSR meet. Divide up Germany and capital of Berlin.
Iron Curtain
Term coined by Winston Churchill that divides democratic Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe.
Truman Doctrine
policy to help free nations who could fall to communist governments.
US sends $400M in aid to Greece and Turkey.
The Marshall Plan
Secretary of State George Marshall proposed United States aid to Europe.
By 1952, 16 countries received over $13B in aid.
Berlin Airlift
Stalin closed access roads to West Berlin.
Airlift begins by the United States and Great Britain to drop supplies.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
United States and Canada form with 10 West-Euro countries.
mutual defense alliance
31 members how
Warsaw Pact
Response to NATO by the Soviet Union. Created their own alliance.
Marshall Islands
test site for the H-Bomb
H-Bomb
Hydrogen bomb -- a nuclear weapon more powerful than the atom bomb.
Brinkmanship
Willingness to to to the brink, or edge of war.
John Foster Dulles
Who proposed Brinkmanship?
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
What does ICBM mean?
Arms Race
A competition between the US and the USSR.
Who can produce and stockpile the most nuclear weapons?
Nikita Khrushchev
Person who emerged as the new Soviet Leader after Stalin passes away.
Open Skies Policy
proposed by Eisenhower to allow flights over each other’s countries to guard against surprise attacks. Soviets DECLINE.
The Space Race
A race between the United States and the Soviets to put people into space.
Sputnik
first artificial, unmanned satellite. Launched by the Soviets.
Francis Gary Powers
person who manned the American spy plane that was shot down over Soviet territory.
38th Parallel
Place where Korea was divided into two territories.
North Korea
Part of Korea under USSR control. Communist.
South Korea
Part of Korea under United States control. Democratic.
Kim II Sung
leader of North Korea.
Syngman Rhee
leader of South Korea.
Containment
The policy of stopping the spread of Communism.
Douglas MacArthur
Person who leads the aid to help South Korea.
Dien Bien Phu
French outpost where Vietnamese attack and force France to surrender
Domino Theory
Eisenhower’s Theory that if one Asian country or colony fell to communism, they would all fall.
The Geneva Accords
divides Vietnam into two parts -- North and South Vietnam.
Ngo Dinh Diem
leader of South Vietnam.
Known as a corrupt dictator but was backed by the United States because he was anti-communism.
Gulf of Tonkin
Lyndon B Johnson tells congress that US boats have been attacked where?
Vietnamization
the gradual removal of United States troops -- South Vietnamese troops have to rely on themselves more.
Cambodia
hiding place for North Vietnamese and Vietcong during the war.
Khmer Rouge
Brutal Communist regime in Cambodia.
Pol Pot
Who is the leader of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia?
Third World Countries
Countries that are newly independent and are less developed.
India and Indonesia
What third-world countries wanted to remain neutral and not be backed by a superpower?
Bandung Conference
leaders from Asia and Africa form “Third Force” of the Nonaligned Nations
Fidel Castro
person who leads a revolution and took power of Cuba.
Bay of Pigs
United States invades Cuba to stop Castro’s communist regime but are easily defeated.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Soviets place missiles in Cuba to pose threat against United States. Great example of brinkmanship.
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Leader of Iran
Muhammed Mossadeq
Person who forced Shah Pahlavi to flee.
Saddam Hussein
Leader of Iraq
Mujahideen
Afghan Rebels
Mikail Gorbachev
becomes leader of Soviet Union (1985).
Mao Zedong
Communist leader of China
Jiang Jieshi
Nationalist leader in China.
Taiwan
Where did Nationalists flee to after the Civil War in China?
Republic of China
What did Taiwan become known as after the Nationalists fled there?
Red Army
another name for the peasant army.
People’s Republic of China
What was the Communist mainland of China called?
Five-Year Plans
Economic goals set out for five years at a time to be accomplished.
Commune
Larger collective farms habited by peasants.
Establish society of peasants and workers being equal.
What was the goal of the Cultural Revolution?
Red Guards
students who formed militia units in China.
Tibet
Country taken over by China in a brutal assault in 1950 and 1951.
Franklin D Roosevelt
United States president at the Yalta Conference.
Harry S Truman
United States representative at the conference at Potsdam, Germany.
Mutually Assured Destruction
If Nuclear weapons are launched by one party, all parties will be destroyed.
Manhattan Project
“project” that made the first atomic bomb.
Desalinization
“Purging” the country of Stalin’s memory.
Imre Nagy
leader in Hungary who promised free elections. Overthrew the government.
Leonid Brezhnev
took over after Khrushchev
Alexander Dubcek
the leader of Czechoslovakia
Detente
a policy of lessening Cold War tensions
Realpolitik
a system of politics or principles based upon practical rather than moral or ideological considerations.
SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)
a five-year agreement that leveled the number of ICMB’s and Submarine-launched missiles a country should have.
Ronald Reagan
Which president ended the policy of Detente?
Strategic Defense Initiative
a program to protect against enemy missiles
Brezhnev Doctrine
justified the invasion and said that the Soviet Union had the right to protect its satellite nations from rejecting communism.