Cold War Flashcards
How was Cold War political?
Communism vs Democracy
How was Cold War military?
Nuclear Arms Race
How was Cold War economics?
Communism vs Capitalism
How was Cold War cultural?
Freedom vs “Police State”
Ho was Cold War education?
Space Race
What was the Cold War?
A battle between two different sets of beliefs or ideologies
Who were the key leaders of the Cold War?
Harry S. Truman
Stalin
What country was Truman?
USA
What country was Stalin?
Russia
What countries were a part of The Communist World?
USSR East Germany Czechoslovakia Hungary Poland
What countries were a part of The Free World?
USA Canada France West Germany Italy Great Britain (UK)
What was the goal of containment?
to “contain” or hold back the soviets and let communism collapse on its own
What was the Cold War seen as?
A global war to win world domination and to outlast the enemy
What were means of containment?
Collective Security - NATO vs Warsaw Economic Programs - Marshall Plan Political Will - Truman Doctrine Espionage and Covert - CIA vs KGB Proxy Wars Nuclear Deterrent - Nuclear Arms Race
What did the Truman Doctrine promote?
military and political aid to any nation willing to resist communism
How much money did the USA give Turkey and Greece?
$400 dollars
What was the Marshall Plan?
Economic aid program to rebuild Western Europe
What is a missile gap?
When a country is nervous about having less nuclear weapons
What is a hydrogen bomb?
Even more powerful than a nuclear bomb (10000x)
What is an ICBM?
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. It is a warhead tipped missile
What is a neutron bomb?
Killed only with radiation leaving buildings intact
What is MAD?
Mutually Assured Destruction.
What was the Nuclear Triad?
Land based missiles, bombs from aircrafts, and submarine launched missiles
What is fallout?
Nuclear radiation
What is a mushroom cloud?
After-effects of an atomic bomb
What is a silo?
Where the missiles are stored underground
What is a bomb shelter?
Backyard shelters for families that would have protected nobody
How does World War II end?
Truman drops bombs on Japan
What two superpowers dominated after WWII?
USA and Russia (USSR)
Where was the United Nations (UN) created?
New York City (NYC)
What two regions were separated during the start of the Cold War?
The East and West
How did Churchill start the Iron Curtain speech?
He condemned the United States and the pinnacle of the world
What year did the USSR detonate their first bomb?
1949
Where did the Chinese nationalists flee to after the Chinese civil war?
Taiwan (Republic of China)
What was Mao Zedong?
A communist
Who was Chiang Kai-shek?
A nationalist
Who was supported by the USSR?
Mao Zedong
Who was supported by the USA?
Chiang Kai-shek
Why did Truman fire Mac?
He wanted to launch Nukes at the Chinese
