Cold War Flashcards
Communism ( Soviet Union / USSR, Stalin, Khrushchev )
Stalin then Khrushchev were the communist leaders of the Soviet Union in the Cold War.
Democracy (United States, FDR, Truman)
Truman and FDR pressed Stalin to have Eastern European countries have free elections to have democracies
Meeting at Yalta
US, Britain and Soviet Union met after WWII to divide Germany into zones controlled by allied forces, Germany would pay Germany, Soviets would join war against Japan, and Eastern Europeans would have free elections.
Meeting at Potsdam
Truman, Stalin and Churchill met. Truman tried to get Stalin to have free elections in Europe. Stalin refused.
Big Three
FDR, Stalin in Churchill
Partition of Germany
The Iron Curtain divides Germany into East and West
Berlin Airlift
The Soviet Union set up a blockade of western Berlin. US and Britain flew food and supplies into West Berlin for 11 months.
Containment
US policy blocking Soviet influence and and stop expansion of communism.
Truman Doctrine
Truman’s support for countries that rejected communism.
Marshall Plan
Give aid to needy European countries by providing food, machinery and materials to rebuild Western Europe.
Mutually Assured Destruction
Complete destruction because both side would fire nucelar weapons at each other.
Arms Race (A bomb, H bomb! Tsar Bomba)
H bomb thousands of times more powerful than the A bomb used against Japan. US and USSR raced to have the strongest bombs first.
Duck and Cover
A movie for kids to feel safe from nuclear war and taught the kids what to do during a necular attack.
Deterrence
when we had protection because we had nukes
Brinkmanship
The willingness to go to the brink (edge) of war with nuclear weapons.
Space Race
Competition of US and Soviets to develop technology to explore and control space. After 20 years they started to work together to explore space.
United Nations (purpose? How different from League of Nations?)
50 countries united to protect each other from aggressors. The security council (Britain, China, France, US, USSR + 6 more) has power to investigate and settle disputes. Countries of UN can deploy armed forces that the League of Nations could not do.
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization Defensive military alliance. An attack on any NATO member would be met with armed forces of all members.
Warsaw Pact
Alternate alliance to NATO that included USSR, East Germany, Czech, Polland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania.
Iron Curtain
Churchill came up with the phrase to describe the division of democratic Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe.
Domino Theory
Eisenhower said the threat of one Southeast Asian nation fall to communism would lead to the fall of other nations to communism.
China
(1949) Communists took over China
Vietnam
(1959-1972) Vietnam was controlled by the French but the locals asked communist to help them gain independence.
Berlin
Hotspot in berlin was in 1981-1989.
