Communism And Cold War Vocab Flashcards
Josef Stalin
Emerged as leader of USSR after death of Lenin
Five year plans and great purge created hardship for many Russians but also strengthened the Russian economy
Red terror
Lenin’s policy of crushing all opposition to his communist regime, suspected = arrest, trial, execution
War communism
Soldiers could take anything from anyone if it was deemed useful or necessary in he effort to defeat the white forces in the Russian civil war
New economic plan
Lenin’s plan to replace war communism after the communists won the civil war
Incorporated capitalist practices in restoring Russian economy, kulaks thrived
Stalin brought this to an end
“Socialism in one country”
Stalin’s attitude regarding the role of USSR in spreading communism
Good communist should work o make communism a success in USSR before devoting energy and resources to promote communism revolutions elsewhere
Fiver year plans
Stalin replaced lenin’s NEP with complete government control of the economy
Established a system of quotas
Collectivization
Stalin’s economic program to increase agricultural production in the 1920s and 1930s
Private ownership of farmland was abolished and giant government run farms were set up
Kulaks
Wealthy peasant farmers whose land was taken away by stalin’s collectivization
Great purge
Anyone accused of opposition to Stalin was killed or imprisoned in a gulag
Iron curtain
Winston churchill’s description of boundary between communist Eastern Europe and capitalist Western Europe
Containment
Term used to describe the US foreign policy that opposed the spread of communist governments
NATO
Alliance that served as military counterweight to Soviet forces in Europe
Part of struggle for political dominance of Europe between us and Soviet Union
An attack on one = an attack on all
Warsaw Pact
Military alliance of 7 communist nations in response to NATO
Primary rival of NATO
Berlin Wall
Barrier dividing east and West Berlin
Demolished in 1989 as one of first steps in reunification of Germany
MAD
mutually assured destruction
State of affairs reached by US and Soviet Union due to their increasing emphasis on nuclear weapons in the arms race
Domino theory
Foreign policy analysis predicted if one country became communist, other countries in the same area would too
Fidel Castro
Led a revolutionary movement that overthrew zaldivar
Opposed US imperialism and made promises of elections
Nationalists business holdings and set up communist regime in Cuba
Nikita Khrushchev
Premier of the Soviet Union who took power after Stalin
Challenged the US politically and economically
Brezhnev doctrine
A policy used by the soviet premier to justify invasion of Czechoslovakia
Soviet Unions right o invade any socialist country that leaders deemed to be threatened by elements “hostile to socialism”
Bétente
Describes a reduction in tensions between the Soviet Union and US
Southeast Asian treat organization
Created to defend no communist countries in southeast Asian
Treaties made by SEATO had economic, social, and cultural gain
Ho Chi Minh
Communist leader of north Vietnam
Led independence movement that drove French out
Led communist opposition to US influence in SE Asia
Great Leap Forward
Programs designed to accelerate development in China and to distinguish Chinese communism from Soviet
Deng Xiaoping
Mao’s successor, introduced radical economic modernization program and suppression of Chinese democracy movement
