Cold War And Beyond Flashcards
Goal of the Truman doctrine
Block the expansion of soviet influence into Greece and Turkey
Containment
Primary US foreign policy from the Truman doctrine
Marshall plan
Program of economic aid and preventing spread of soviet influence
NATO
A defensive military alliance, a break from America’s isolation
Soviet unions response to NATO
Formation of the Warsaw Pact
Warsaw Pact
Alliance of European nations against NATO
Berlin airlift
Airlift of food supplies and fuel into West Berlin
The EEC
Know as the common market Eliminated trade barriers
Charles de Gaulle
Established the fifth French Republic
De Gaulle did what with NATO
Withdrew France from NATO
Stalins 5 year plan
Emphasized extensive industrialization
Khrushchev’s secret speech
Khrushchev attacks Stalin and his reign of terror
De-stalinization
Khrushchev’s plan to produce more consumer goods, curb the power of the secret police, and grant freedom to writers and intellectuals
Starts space race
Launching of Sputnik
Berlin Wall
Stopped flow of refugees into Berlin