last history unit

last history test of 9th gr (idk what it's on but i have two days til and i kind of need to get 100% so...)

cold war

conflict between us and ussr by methods of political, economic, military pressures

proxy war

fight through your allies rather than directly

iron curtain

division between western europe and soviets/eastern europe during cold war

satellite nations

states orbiting soviet union, barrier to get to soviets

containment

us strategy to contain soviets and not let communism spread

decolonozation

independence for colonized countries

domino theory

theory that if one country fell to communism, its neighbors would also

marshall plan

us provided money to west europe countries

truman doctrine

us policy to defend free peoples of the world

nato

north atlantic treaty organization; basically a gigantic alliance

warsaw pact

ussr and some other countries, like nato

38th parallel

division of south and north korea

space race

space tech competition between us and ussr

arms race

weapon development competition between us and ussr

brinkmanship

push a situation to the brink of nuclear war to make the opposing team back down

glasnost

gorbachev’s attempt to have transparency and freedom of information in ussr

perestrokia

ussr reform of political and economic system

mao zedong

founder and communist leader of people’s republic of china

ho chi minh

communist leader of north vietnam

big three

churchill, stalin, fdr / truman

julius and ethel rosenburg

passed atomic info to ussr, executed by us

bert the turtle

character teaching kids in school how to handle atomic attacks

great leap forward

mao’s plan to industrialize china

red guard

young people in china who preserved communism

cultural revolution

mao’s version of the great purge

united nations

replacement for league of nations, maintain peace, every country has a representative

douglas macarthur

wwii hero who led an attack on north korea during the korean war

kim jong un

current leader of north korea

free peoples (truman doctrine)

anyone who opposed communism

little red book

carried by red guard, mao’s words

communism

command economy, gov. controlled

capitalism

free economy, democracy

spying/espionage

us spies on ussr, ussr spies on us