Final Test

Franklin Roosevelt

Franklin Roosevelt

President of the US during Great Depression and World War II

Joseph Stalin

Communist dictator of the Soviet Union

Winston Churchill

Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII

Harry Truman

Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb

Goerge Marshall

America's foremost soldier during World War II, served as chief of staff from 1939 to 1945, building and directing the largest army in history.

Nakita khushchev

First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964

Ho chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh, the Communist leader of N. Vietnam wanted to reunite Vietnam.

Fidal castro

Communist Dictator of Cuba who has ruled for more than 40 yrs, allies with the soviet union

Adam Smith

Scottish economist who is father of Capitalism.

Karl Marx

founder of modern communism

Mikhail Gorbachev

This person did things to preserve communism

Boris Yeltsin

President of the Russian Republic in 1991. Helped end the USSR and force Gorbachev to resign.

Leonid Brezhnev

Seized power from Nikita Khrushchev and became leader of the Soviet Communist party in 1964. Ordered forces in to Afghanistan and Czechoslovakia.

Communism

A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, Gov gets control of everything

Capitalism

An economic system based on private ownership of capital

Iorn curtain

A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region

Containment

American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world

Yalta Conference

Big Three met to discuss how to divide Germany and Austria.

Truman Doctrine

wanted to give money to Greece and Turkey to stop the spread of communism.

Marshall Plan

A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952)

Sputnik

Russia got somthing in space wanting the Us to comp.

Berlin Airlift

airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin

NATO

an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security

Warsaw Pact

An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO

Berlin Wall

A wall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West

Bay of Pigs

An unsuccessful invasion of Cuba in 1961, which was sponsored by the United States. Its purpose was to overthrow Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

Cuban Missile crisis

The 1962 confrontation bewteen US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba.

CIA

an independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest

KGB

Soviet secret police agency charged with domestic and foreign intelligence

Korean War

The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.

Douglas MacArthur

American general, who commanded allied troops in the Pacific during World War II.

Vietnam War

A prolonged war between the communist armies of North Vietnam who were supported by the Chinese and the non-communist armies of South Vietnam who were supported by the United States.

Paris Peace Accords

1973 peace agreement between the United States, South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and the Vietcong that effectively ended the Vietnam War.

Communist Bloc

The group of Eastern European nations that fell under the control of the Soviet Union following World War II.

Common market

a group of countries that acts as a single market, without trade barriers between member countries

Brezhnev Doctrine

Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need.

Perestoika

a policy of USSR leader gorbechev to revitalize the econ. by opening it up to more free enterprise

Glasnost

a policy of the Soviet government allowing freer discussion of social problems(Freedom of speach)

Tehran Conferance

Conference between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin where they decided to launch an invasion of Western Europe.

Potsdam Conference

July 26, 1945 - Allied leaders Truman, Stalin and Churchill met in Germany to set up zones of control and to inform the Japanese that if they refused to surrender at once, they would face total destruction.