Chapter 33 Flashcards
Conference to determine what would happen in Europe after world war II.
Yalta
This organization was supposed to achieve victory for the Allies during World War II and then keep world peace afterwards.
United Nations
This allied country was nearly completely destroyed following world war II and was determined to punish Germany to avoid being invaded ever again.
Soviet Union
This line divided Europe between democracy and communism after World War II.
Iron Curtain
He made a speech explaining how Europe was divided between democracy and communism in 1946.
Churchill
US policy to stop the spread of communism in Europe.
Containment
He pledged to support the democratic governments in the countries of Greece and Turkey in 1947.
Truman
The ______ Plan was to help European countries avoid communism by supplying money for rebuilding after world war II.
Marshall
The Berlin _____ was to resist the starvation of Berlin in 1948-1949 by the communists.
Airlift
This was organized to fight a war in western Europe.
NATO
The _____ Pact was to protect eastern Europe from invasion.
Warsaw
The _____ was developed to be bigger and more powerful than the atomic bomb.
H bomb
This man led the United States policy of brinkmanship during the 1950s.
Dulles
This was the first successful space satellite.
Sputnik
The U-2 incident was a ____ sponsored spy plane that was shot out the sky in May 1960.
CIA
These were rockets developed to be launched with nuclear payloads from one continent to another.
ICBM
He (first and last name) was the communist leader in China.
Mao Zedong
Chiang Kai-shek led ______ China.
Nationalist
He was the peaceful leader of Tibet who fled to India when China became communist.
Dalai Lama
These were farms in China that contained between 200-300 families working as a unit.
Collectives
These were huge farming complexes supporting over 25,000 people in Communist China.
Communes
These were high school and college students organized in China to learn revolution by making revolution.
Red guards
The _____ targeted intellectuals who had to “purify” themselves by doing hard labor in remote villages in China in the 1960s.
Cultural
The _____ separated North and South Korea.
38th parallel
Which country assisted North Korea during the Korean War.
China
Nationalist China occupied the island of _____.
Taiwan
General _____ commanded the United Nations forces in Korea in 1950.
MacArthur
This river separated North Korea and China.
Yalu
MacArthur was fired by Harry Truman when he threatened to use the ____ on China.
Atomic
During the 1980s and 1990s, _____ had one of the highest economic growth rates in the world.
South Korea
He was the leader of communist Vietnam. (full name)
Ho chi minh
This theory said that Southeast Asian nations would fall one by one to communism.
Domino
He was the anti-communist leader in South Vietnam in 1963.
Diem
South Vietnamese communists were called ____.
Vietcong
The Ho Chi Minh _____ was the communist supply route that went through Laos and Cambodia before entering Vietnam from the west.
Trail
The Gulf of ______ incident led to wide scale US involvement in Vietnam in 1964.
Tonkin
He led the US policy of Vietnamization in 1969 in an attempt to withdraw US soldiers from the conflict.
Nixon
The ______ were communist Cambodians led by Pol Pot that slaughtered over two million people in the 1970s-1980s.
Khmer Rouge
Many _____ (two words) attempted to escape Vietnam and come illegally to America over the Pacific Ocean in the 1970s.
boat people
The _____ (two words) consisted of developing nations, often newly independent, who were not aligned with either superpower
third world
Soviet Spy agency during the Cold War.
KGB
American Spy agency during the Cold War.
CIA
Communist leader in Cuba in the 1950s-2010s.
Castro
This was a US assisted invasion of Cuba in 1961.
Bay of Pigs
A Naval _____ was used by the US to stop Soviet missiles from being deployed in Cuba in October 1962.
Blockade
Communist Nicaraguan leader.
Ortega
Anti-communist dictator of Nicaragua.
Somoza
Iranian leader in the 1940s-1970s.
Pahlavi
Ayahollah Khomeini was the Islamic leader in ____ during the 1979 revolution.
Iran
American _____ were taken in 1979 in Iran and held for over a year.
Hostages
Iran and _____ fought a long-lasting war in the 1980s.
Iraq
US president who instituted a military draft registration process following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Carter
He withdrew Soviet military forces from Afghanistan in 1989.
Gorbachev
Khrushchev became Soviet leader following _____ death in 1953.
Stalin
This eastern European nation attempted anti-communist revolution failed in 1956.
Hungary
This eastern European nation attempted an anti-communist revolution but failed in 1968.
Czechoslovakia
The _____ and Soviet cooperation began failing in the 1950s when the Soviets stopped technical economic aid.
China
He was US president during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Kennedy
Nixon attempted lessening Col War tensions with the policy of ____.
Détente
He was the first president to visit communist China in 1972.
Nixon
This was to limit the levels of the number of intercontinental ballistic and submarine-launched missiles each country could have.
SALT
US President that increase defense spending that triggered a collapse of the Soviet system.
Reagan
These were Anti-communist Nicaragua freedom fighters supported by President Reagan in 1983.
Contras
