Cold War Flashcards

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Communism ( Soviet Union / USSR, Stalin, Khrushchev )

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Stalin then Khrushchev were the communist leaders of the Soviet Union in the Cold War.

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Democracy (United States, FDR, Truman)

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Truman and FDR pressed Stalin to have Eastern European countries have free elections to have democracies

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Meeting at Yalta

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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.

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Meeting at Potsdam

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Truman, Stalin and Churchill met. Truman tried to get Stalin to have free elections in Europe. Stalin refused.

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Big Three

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FDR, Stalin in Churchill

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Partition of Germany

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The Iron Curtain divides Germany into East and West

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Berlin Airlift

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The Soviet Union set up a blockade of western Berlin. US and Britain flew food and supplies into West Berlin for 11 months.

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Containment

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US policy blocking Soviet influence and and stop expansion of communism.

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Truman Doctrine

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Truman’s support for countries that rejected communism.

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Marshall Plan

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Give aid to needy European countries by providing food, machinery and materials to rebuild Western Europe.

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Mutually Assured Destruction

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Complete destruction because both side would fire nucelar weapons at each other.

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Arms Race (A bomb, H bomb! Tsar Bomba)

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H bomb thousands of times more powerful than the A bomb used against Japan. US and USSR raced to have the strongest bombs first.

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Duck and Cover

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A movie for kids to feel safe from nuclear war and taught the kids what to do during a necular attack.

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Deterrence

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when we had protection because we had nukes

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Brinkmanship

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The willingness to go to the brink (edge) of war with nuclear weapons.

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Space Race

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Competition of US and Soviets to develop technology to explore and control space. After 20 years they started to work together to explore space.

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United Nations (purpose? How different from League of Nations?)

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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.

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NATO

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization Defensive military alliance. An attack on any NATO member would be met with armed forces of all members.

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Warsaw Pact

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Alternate alliance to NATO that included USSR, East Germany, Czech, Polland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania.

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Iron Curtain

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Churchill came up with the phrase to describe the division of democratic Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe.

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Domino Theory

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Eisenhower said the threat of one Southeast Asian nation fall to communism would lead to the fall of other nations to communism.

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China

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(1949) Communists took over China

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Vietnam

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(1959-1972) Vietnam was controlled by the French but the locals asked communist to help them gain independence.

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Berlin

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Hotspot in berlin was in 1981-1989.

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Korea

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(1950-1953) Japanese north of 38th parallel surrendered to Soviet troops and became communists. South of this line surrendered to American troops and were supported by western powers.

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Cuba

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(1959)Fidel Castro led a revolution in Cuba and became a harsh dictator for more than 40 years. Cuba was supported by communist USSR.

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Israel

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The taliban fought the communist in isrial. the taliban were islmic religous scholars.

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Middle East

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Soviets began to influence Afganistan. The US supplied Afgan rebels with American weapons to preserve oil supplies. In 1989 the Soviets withdrew from Afganistan.

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Glasnost

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A Soviet policy to allow free flow of ideas and information. Glasnost means openness.

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Perestroika

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Soviet economic restructuring. Gorbachev made changes to revive the Soviet economy.

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Gorbachev

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Soviet leader that brought big changes to economy, social reform, political system, foreign policy.

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Fall of the Soviet Union

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There was a coup and Gorbechev was captured for a few days but came back to power but 15 parts of the Soviet Union declared their independence and became their own countries.

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Poland/Hungary/Czech

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Poland started an economic reform and joined NATO, Hungary and Czech followed.