Cold War Unit Three Key Terms Flashcards
What were the Three Baskets from the Helsinki accords
- European borders 2. cooperation 3. Human rights
What were the Helsinki accords
33 nations from the Warsaw pact and NATO join together to build on spirit of cooperation
What was SALT 1
Strategic arms limitation treaty 1 - May 1972
What was SALT 2
Strategic arms limitation treaty 2 - June 1979
What was the Vietnam war
Brutal and bloodiest conflict of Cold War with USA, 1964 - 1975
What was the Carter Doctrine
A return to the policy of Containment. The US would use military force to protect allies
What is Martial Law
When a country or area is put under control of the army
Who are the Mujahedeen
Muslim Guerilla fighters who fought against the Soviet army
What was the second cold war
The period in the 1980’s after Reagan came to power, heightened tensions
What was the Chernobyl disaster
Explosion at the Soviet nuclear reactor in 1986. 31 died and 350,000 rehomed
What was the Geneva Summit
1985 - Where Gorbachev and Reagan met for the first time establishing relations
What was the Malta Summit
1989 - Gorbachev met with the new president, George Bush. Both parties saw this as the end
What was the Moscow Summit
1989 - Complex details regarding INF resolved
What was New Thinking
Gorbachev’s foreign policy based on shared principles to solve global problems
What was Perestroika
Russian for ‘reconstruction.’ Gorbachev’s policy for reorganising the Soviet state
Velvet Revolution
The name given to the peaceful revolution in Czechoslovakia - led by artists and students
Washington summit
1987 - US still refuse to give up sdi BUT ends in INF treaty
Glasnost
Russian for ‘openness’ Gorbachev’s policy to allow democratic reforms and open debate
