Cold War Flashcards
What is Containment?
Contain communism don’t let it spread
Who is the Cold War between?
US vs Soviets
Why was the Cold War fought?
Ideology War Communism vs Democracy
Truman Doctrine?
1947 provide assists to any countries who reject communism
The first was Turkey and Greece
Marshall Plan was?
Rebuild Europe & Repel communism
Korean War was?
Korea split North communist & South non communists
•No official Peace Treaty
Vietnam War was?
Containment to keep Communism in the North not to let is spread to the south
Why did the West want to reject communism?
They feared a domino effect would happen across Europe
What was the Détente?
The ease of tension, Nixon first to recognize Republic of China
Who was Gorbachev ?
Last leader of the Soviet Union, S.U. Isolated itself
What was Perestroika?
Openness
What was Glasnot ?
Economic reform
