rise of superpowers cuban misile crisis Flashcards
usa capitalism political and economic system
democratic government
free speech
business and property privately owned
Russian communist political and economic system
dictatorship
secret police spied on people
censorship
business owned and managed by government
what term was used by Winston Churchill to describe the spreading of communism
iron curtain
what other countries did Russia establish a communist government in
Poland, Bulgaria , Romania , hungary and czechslovakia
what was the policy to stop the spread of communism
containment
what was the Truman doctrine
the act took by president Truman to give financial aid to any country that rejects communism
after stalins death who took charge of Russia
what the difference between him and stalin
and what was his policy
nikita kruschev
he was more moderate
peaceful coexistence
arms race
the race between the usa and ussr to develop stronger bombs
why was the berlin wall built
a meeting between john f kennedy and kruschev went badly kruschev built a wall to stop people fleeing to the west
who came to power in cuba and what did they introduce
fidel castro and introduced communism, took over American companies
where was the American backed attempt to overthrow Mussolini stopped
bay of pigs
what did the americans ban with cuba
trade
who did castro now turn to
kruschev
what did the Russians agree to buy off cuba
sugar their main export
why did kruschev plan to install misiles in cuba
he was pleased to have an ally so close to America
soviets did not have as much missiles that could hit america as America had that could hit Russia they felt they could catch up with shorter missiles
