Chapter 17 Flashcards
What international organization was formed to work on political disagreements?
The United Nations
Why did the Soviet Union choose to occupy a strip of countries on its western border?
As a protective buffer zone
What did Winston Churchill call the division between East and West?
the iron curtain
What was the name of the policy the U.S. adopted to halt the spread of Communism?
truman doctrine
What was the American plan for assisting the rebuilding of western Europe called?
Marshall Plan
The Americans were able to “defeat” Soviet aggression by using an airlift into what city?
Berlin
What was the name of the military alliance formed by Western Europe, the U.S. and Canada?
NATO: North Atlantic treaty Organization
What was the name of the military alliance formed by the U.S.S.R. and its satellites?
The Warsaw Pact
What Soviet scientific accomplishment in 1949 stunned the United States?
The invention of the atomic bomb
What was brinkmanship?
the willingness to go to the brink or edge of war
What spying scandal embarrassed the United States?
U-2 Incident
Which side did the United States take in the Chinese Civil War?
the nationalist
What became of the Nationalists after their defeat?
Moved to Taiwan
Who became the new leader of China?
Mao Zedong
What area of Chinese life did the new leader seek to reform first?
The economy
What was the name for the plan to expand collective farms?
The Great Leap Forward
The Red Guard helped Mao Zedong to implement what major uprising?
Cultural Revolution
In 1950 war broke out in what country?
Korea
Who was the young nationalist who eventually led North Vietnam?
Hồ Chí Minh
What political concept was behind the U.S. willingness to get involved in Vietnam?
The domino effect
Who won the war in Vietnam?
North Vietnam(communist)
Vietnam tried to extend its brand of Communism into what country?
Cambodia
What term is given to a country that is non-aligned (and usually developing economically)?
Third World
What are the names of the spy agencies of the U.S. and the Soviet Union (respectively)?
The CIA and KGB (respectively [meaning in order]
Who led the revolution in Cuba?
Fidel Castro
What failed invasion embarrassed the United States?
Bay of Pigs
What event almost resulted in World War III?
Cuban Missile Crisis
Communist rebels overthrew a U.S.-supported dictator in what Central American country?
Nicaragua
Muslim rebels overthrew a U.S.-supported dictator in what Middle Eastern country?
Iran
Russians repeated the American mistakes in Vietnam when it started a war in what country?
Afghanistan
Who was the Soviet leader who took over after Stalin’s death?
Khrushchev
Leonid Brezhnev quickly put down a revolt in what Communist country?
Czechoslovakia
Soviet-American relations didn’t improve until the administration of which U.S. President?
President Richard Nixon
What is the French word for a lessening of tensions between countries?
detente
Soviet-American relations worsened again under the administration of which U.S. President?
President Ronald Reagan
