Chapter 25: The Cold War Flashcards
Bretton Woods
Created institutions of a global financial system (International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Inernational Bank Poem for Reconsturction and Development)
Conference: meeting of economic planners to develop a global economic order for post-WWI world
Truman Doctrine
Formed in the context of anti-communinsit intervention in Turkey and Greece
- Americanists arguging for a strategy of firm “containment”
- became a cornerstone of the American policy of containment designed to stop Soviet expansion anywhere in the world
Marshall Plan
Pumped billions of dollars into Western Europe creating Soviet influence addressing economic problems
All of the above (rebuilding western europe, creating new market for american goods, generate support for capitalist governments
Molotov Plan
Counterpart of the Marshall Plan
- Soviets and a symbolic pledge of aid to Eastern Europe
Berlin Airlift
Us, Brit, France introducing new currency into Germany and USSR blocking West Berlin
- US organizing essential supplies until Soviets lifted blockade
NSC-68
Stated US view of the USSR as an absolute enemy needed to be countered with massive increase in military spending
- warned of “increasingly terrifying weapons of mass desctruction”
General Douglas MacArthur
Pushed for the use of nuclear weapsons, but was dismissed by Truman creating ceasefire and peace talks
- mobilized UN forces
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
The use of nuclear weapons by either would result in the destruction of the United States and USSR, leading to a war being deterred
Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMS)
American and Soviet rocket engineering teams adapting German rocket technology to create this
This was an advantage that the Soviet Union achieved alongside (all of the above) launching first orbiting satelitte, and sending first human into orbit
Sputnik 1
USSR demonstrating technical capacity in beating US to first launch of the human-made satelitte (this)
