Cold War Flashcards

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TMAC two ideas on how to govern, mutual distrust, arms race, competition

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Causes of the Cold War

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Political and military rivalry with the soviet

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Cold War

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Promote peace created after WWII

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United Nations

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Churchill’s description of Europe being divided by democracy and communism

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Iron curtain

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Plan to help rebuild Europe with economic aid from the U.S.

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Truman doctrine

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Soviets stopped all travel in and outbid Berlin

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Beeline blockade

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U.S. sends food and fuel to berlin by air.

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Berlin airlift

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military alliance Western Europe and United States

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NATO

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Military alliance Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

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Warsaw Pact

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American couple who provided soviets with info to build atomic bomb. The last Americans to be executed for espionage

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The Rosenberg’s

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Soviet Union launches first satellite in 1957

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Sputnik

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Soviet Union shots down American U-2 spy plane

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U-2 incident

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CIA led invasion of communist Cuba in 1961

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Bay of pigs

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Soviets build a wall around the city of West Berlin

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Berlin Wall

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Soviets places nuclear missile in Cuba aimed at the United States

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Cuban middle crisis

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Czechoslovakia holds peaceful demonstrations to end communism

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Prague spring

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1989 democratic protest in china by students

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Tiananmen Square

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1989

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Fall of the wall

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1990 Germany reunites

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Soviet republics become democratic

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1991 communism collapses

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End of the Soviet Union

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CHECKING VAC china, Hungary, Egypt, Czechoslovakia, Korea, Iran, Nicaragua, Guatemala. Vietnam, Afghanistan, chile

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Cold War battlefields