Cold War Flashcards
Flights of humanitarian aid flown by the Us, Britain and France into Western Berlin after Stalin tried to blockade material coming into the city
Berlin Airlift
Built to halt the flow of immigration for East Berlin/ East Germany to West Berlin due to a lack of consumer goods and Soviet control of the economy
Berlin Wall
The state of relations between the United Sates and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies between the end of World War ll and 1990; based on the creation of political spheres of influence and a nuclear arms race rather than actual combat
Cold War
A more tolerant political climate in the Soviet Union with less persecution of political opponents and critics as well as an expansion of cultivation of Siberian land under state directed initiatives (collectives)
De-Stalinization
Nations favorable to the Soviet Union in eastern Europe during the Cold War particularly Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, and East Germany
Eastern Bloc
The American president from 1945-1952 who authorized the atomic bomb during WWll and developed a tough stance against the Soviets during the cold war
Harry Turman
The division between communist eastern Europe and non communist western Europe coined by Winston Churchill
Iron Curtain
A Soviet leader who pushed for re-stalinization and used martial law to crack down on dissenters along with a massive military build up putting the Soviet Union in heavy debt
Lenoid Brezhnev
A US program to give substantial loans post WWll designed to aid nations in rebuilding from the wars devastation to show American economic dominance
Marshall Plan
Took control of the Soviet Union after death of Stalin that tried to move the soviet Union away from Stalinist policies
Nikita Khrushehev
Post WWll alliance of western European nations plus Canada and the US as a defense Union against possible Soviet Aggression
NATO
The enforcement part of the United Nations that has 5 permanent veto holding members (US, Britain, France, China, and the USSR)
Security Council
A Polish labor movement formed under Lech Walesa that challenged the communist Polish government dominated by the Soviet Union
Solidarity Movement
US policy to provide military or monetary aid to physical fight against communism for countries or resistance groups
Truman Doctrine
A International organization with the goal to keep peace, reduce violent conflict, provide refugee relief, secure human rights, protect the environment and offer economic aid
Untied Nations
Alliance Organization headed by the Soviet Union and its Eastern Satellite nations to balance the formation of NATO
Warsaw Pact
A revolutionary group in Nicaragua based after Sandino who fought against the US occupational force that took control in the 1980’s
Sandinsta Party
Democratically elected President of Chile who will use socialist programs and will nationalize industries and banks as well as sponsor peasants and work land reforms away from foreign companies. These polices will cause the US to support a revolt by the military to overthrow his government
Salvador Allende
President of Guatemala after WWll that created a series of socialist reforms including ones against foreigner owned companies such as the United Fruit Company
Jacob Arbenz
A policy created by President Roosevelt in the 1930’s aimed at halting direct US intervention into Latina American Politics
Good Neighbor Policy
Dictator of Cuba who was overthrown by the revolution led by Fiedel Castro
Fulgencio Batista
Cuba revolutionary who took over Cuba and initiated a series of socialist reforms, nationalization of foreign businesses and created a close tie and alliance with Soviet Union
Fidel Castro
Argentine revolutionary who will aid in the Cuban revolution as a true Marxist who will continue to lead socialist revolutions in Latin America and abroad
Ernesto “Che” Guevara
The killing of 30,000 socialist citizens and disadents by the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Argentina
Dirty Wars
