Chapter 25 - The Cold War Flashcards
Containment
a geopolitical strategy to stop the expansion of an enemy. It is best known as the Cold War policy of the United States and its allies to prevent the spread of communism..
Cold War
a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc.
Truman Doctrine
an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. It was first announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947:547-9 and further developed on July 12, 1948 when he pledged to contain Soviet threats to Greece and Turkey.
Marshall Plan
an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion[1] (approximately $130 billion in current dollar value as of June 2016) in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II.
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European states based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.
Warsaw Pact
formally the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance and sometimes, informally, WarPac was a collective defence treaty among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War.
Cuneiform
a system of writing first developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia c. 3500-3000 BCE.
Berlin Wall
a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was a politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War.
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong or Mao Tse-tung, also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary and founding father of the People’s Republic of China, which he governed as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949, until his death in 1976.
Cuban Missile Crisis
also known as the October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day (October 16–28, 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.
Arms Race
a competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons, especially between the US and the former Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Satellite Staes
a political term that refers to a country or nation that was formally independent, but is now politically and economically influenced by another country.
Domino Theory
the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall.
East Germany
formally the German Democratic Republic, was an Eastern Bloc state during the Cold War period.
West Germany
the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation on 23 May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990.
The Peoples Republic
a title used by certain republican states. Initially associated with populism (people’s movements: Völkisch movement, Narodnik, others), it eventually became associated with countries adhering to communism, after the creation of the Soviet Union and China.
The Great Leap Foward
an economic and social campaign by the Communist Party of China from 1958 to 1962.
