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Cold War-Finals Flashcards

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United Nations

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Organization created after WWII to promote world peace

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Causes of the Cold War

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(T-MAC):
T-Two Ideologies
M-Mutual Distrust
A-Arms Race
C-Competition, space race, control of third world, athletics
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Iron Curtain

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

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Truman Doctrine

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The US will help any free country fight (to contain communism)

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The Marshall Plan

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US sent economic aid to help Europe rebuild and prevent spread of communism in W. Europe

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Berlin Blockade

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Soviets stop all land travel into and out of Berlin

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Berlin Airlift

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US sent food and fuel to Berlin through the air

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NATO

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(North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Military alliance (US and West Europe)

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Warsaw Pact

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Military alliance with Soviets and E. Europe

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The Rosenburgs

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American couple who provided data to Soviets with information on the atomic bomb, executed for espionage

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Sputnik

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Soviet Union launches the world a first satellite in 1957

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U-2 Incident

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Soviet Union shoots down American U-2 spy plane

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Bay of Pigs

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CIA led invasion of Communist Cuba in 1961

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Berlin Wall

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Soviets build a wall around W. Berlin

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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Soviet placed missiles in Cuba pointing at the US

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Prague Spring

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Czech. Holds peaceful demonstrations to end communism

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Tiananmen Square

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Democratic protests in China by students (1989)

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Fall of the Wall

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(1989) Berlin Wall is finally destroyed

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Soviet Republic becomes democratic

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(1990) Now independent, Germany reunites

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End of the Soviet Union

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(1991) Soviet Union and communism collapse

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Cold War Battlefields

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(CHECKING AC):

  • China
  • Hungary
  • Egypt
  • Czech.
  • Korea
  • Iran
  • Nicaragua
  • Guatemala
  • Afghanistan
  • Chile

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