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The Cold War Flashcards

1
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After WWII, The cold war was the name given to the relationship between _____ and _______.

A 
USA
USSR (soviet union)
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Dominated internal affairs for how many years? Which ones? (basically how long was the cold war)

A

46

1945-1991

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For many what was the most worrying issue ?

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the growth in weapons of mass destruction

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What is the definition of the cold war?

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War where no battles were actually fought
Struggle for world power
massive arms race

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What conference happened in 1945 that discussed the agenda for post war Germany?

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Yalta conference

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Who was involved in the Yalta conference

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Stalin
Winston Churchill
Franklin Roosevelt

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What did they decide to do with Germany at Yalta.

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it would be split into 4 territories

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who occupied the 4 territories in Germany ?

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British
Soviet Union
France
United States

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What did Stalin agree to at the Yalta conference?

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Allow free elections in Eastern Europe

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10
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Who was free to concentrate primarily on events in Europe?

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Stalin

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11
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What was the meeting at the end of WWII

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Potsdam

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12
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what happened at Potsdam?

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Winston Churchill and Truman tried to get Stalin to agree to his promise at Yalta but he refuses.

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13
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Truman leaves Potsdam convinced that Stalin wants _________.

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world power

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14
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What did Stalin want to do?

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impose communism on other nations and dominate Europe

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15
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What was the Iron Curtain ?

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barrier between communist east and democratic west.

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16
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What was america’s policy after WWII ?

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Containment Policy

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17
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What did the containment policy do?

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Contain communism where it exists and stop the spread of it

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18
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Who made the Containment policy?

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George Kennan

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19
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According to Kennan, how did Stalin present the outside world to justify is own blood regime?

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Hostile and menacing

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20
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What was made that allowed the U.S. to assist any country whose stability was threatened by communism ?

A

Truman Doctrine

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21
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In the Truman Doctrine, $400 million was used to assist ________ and ________.

A

Greece and Turkey

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22
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What followed the Truman Doctrine?

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Marshal plan

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23
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Why did secretary George Marshall believe citizens in war ravaged countries would turn to communism?

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They didn’t want to starve or die

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What was made to rebuild and create a strong foundation for all European allies and repel communism

A

Marshall plan

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25
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The economy of every participant state of the Marshall plan had grown past pre-war levels except _______.

A

Germany

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Soviets blockaded______ from the West’s supplies.(what city)

A

Berlin

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27
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What were the soviets trying to do by blockading Berlin?

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Reduce the chances of the Allies unifying West Germany

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28
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What was the result pf the Soviets blockade of Berlin?

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The clear division of west and east Germany for many years to come

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29
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How did the Allies get around the blockade and make Stalin lift the blockade ?

A

Berlin Airlift

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30
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First true “battle of the Cold War is over ______.

A

Korea

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31
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The Korean conflict was fought from ______ to ______.

A

1950 to 1953

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32
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Who controlled Korea in 1910?

A

Japan

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33
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What did Japan force Korea to do?

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disband the army and outlaw culture and language

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34
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At Yalta Conference, Allies agreed to divide ____ along the _____.

Who controlled the north?
Who controlled the south?

A

Korea
38th Parallel

Soviets
United States

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35
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Who was the leader of North Korea?

A

Kim il Sung

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36
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Who was the leader of South Korea?

A

Syngman Rhee

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37
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Which Korea invade which?

A

North invaded South

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38
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North Korea troops used ________ and drove ________.

A

Soviet made weapons

Soviet made Tanks

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39
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Why did North Korean leader Kim il Sung unleash 100,000 well trained and well armed combat troops on the South?

A

In an attempt to reunite Korea to be one communist country

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40
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President Truman Believes the invasion of South Korea is a trick. What does he think is the real threat?

A

Soviet Invasion of western Europe

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41
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Truman sees Korea’s act of aggression and asks the _______ for the use of forces.

A

United Nations

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42
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Why didn’t the Soviets stop North Korea from invading South Korea?

A

They didn’t think the US would respond

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43
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What did china say it would do if the United States came close to the Yalu River?

A

They would respond with a massive military invasion

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44
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North Korea pushes deep into South Korea into the port city of ________.

A

Pusan

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45
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What did Lieutenant Carl Bernard mean when he said “That was my first appreciation that we had a serious set of problems”

A

No matter how much they shot they couldn’t defeat the tanks

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46
Q

United Nations launches a counteroffensive to the Korean War at _________?
Effect of this?

A

Inchon

Pushed North Korea out of South Korea

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47
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Why was Inchon one of the most successful operations in military history?

A

There was hardly any casualties

48
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What was the first hot war of the cold war?

A

Korea

49
Q

What does Mao Zedong, leader of communist China, believe is the reason the US intervened in Korea?

A

As a scheme to expand into east Asia

50
Q

What were the orders given to MacArthur as he crosses the 38th Parallel?

A

Stop at any sign of Russian or china involvement

Stop well before the Yalu River

51
Q

After China joined into the war due to MacArthur’s Advance, a _______ developed

A

Stalemate

52
Q

_______ and _______ disagree on how to proceed after china joins.

A

Truman

MacArthur

53
Q

Truman fires _________, which is replaced by ________.

A

MacArthur

Matthew Ridgeway

54
Q

What was General MacArthur’s foreign policy?

A

no substitute for victory

war with china

55
Q

What was one reason Truman felt like he needed to fire MacArthur?

A

His insubordination and he was gonna run for president

56
Q

Fighting in Korea becomes intense and the battles of ________ and _________ happen.

A

Bloody Ridge

Heartbreak Ridge

57
Q

Who wins presidency in 1952?

A

Eisenhower

58
Q

in ____ an ______ was signed to end fighting.

A

1953

Armistice

59
Q

Today there is a __________ on the 38th parallel that divides the peninsula.

A

Guarded Demilitarized Zone

60
Q

Today South Korea prospers _______.

A

economically

61
Q

Today North Korea is a ________

A

dictatorship

62
Q

Jfk made his inauguration in what year ?

What did he say in his speech?

A

1961

Its not what your country can do for you it is what you can do for your country

63
Q

What does JFK say is the basis to the preservation of a Democracy?

A

Education

64
Q

JFK says _________ is responsible for the interests of the people who don’t have resources to have representatives in Washington

A

The president

65
Q

What did kennedy make that helped underdeveloped nations in education farming health care and construction

A

Peace corps

66
Q

What controversial problems has the peace corps encountered ?

A

Women were robbed and sexually assulted

67
Q

What does he mean when he says “The peace corps is one of the few organizations that receives bi partisan support

A

Repiblicans and democrats support it

68
Q

How was richard nixion welcomed by latin americans in 1958?

A

He wasnt they wanted him to go away

69
Q

What was the goal of bay of pigs?

Who concieved of the plan ?

It was approved under what condition?

Did it work?

A

Overthrow fidel castro

The CIA

No american troops involved

No

70
Q

What was when kennedy met with khrushchev for two days of meetings ?

What was the main issue?

A

Vienna conference

Berlin

71
Q

Jfk informed the world that the _______ was builong secret missile bases in _______.

A

Soviet union

Cuba

72
Q

What did JFK do in response to cuban missile crisis?

A

Ordered a naval blockade of cuba

73
Q

What was the soviet unions response to the blockade ?

A

To fire nuclear weapons if the is onvades

74
Q

Why was Fidel Castro a growing concern for the US?

A

He was constantly spreading communism

75
Q

What was the official name for the blockade?

A

Quarantine

76
Q

Kennedy praised the character of the german people for their pursuit of _______.

A

Freedom

77
Q

Who was the first president to get involved ?

A

Eisenhower

78
Q

Who supported the communist laps rebels?

A

The russians

79
Q

What prohibited atomic testing on the ground atmosphere and water?

What did it not prohibit

A

Nuclear test ban treaty

Testing underground

80
Q

Who were the initial signers of the nuclear test ban treaty?

A

United States
United Kingdom
Soviet Union

81
Q

Why was JFK goin to moscow?

A

As a representative of US to sign the nuclear test ban treaty

82
Q

What happened three months after the nuclear ban treaty was signed ?

A

JFK got assassinated

83
Q

Over a ____ year span over _______ american soldiers were sent to fight in Vietnam.

A

10

2 million

84
Q

in the 1800s ______ military forces established control in Indochina, which is located in a peninsula in southeast asia with cambodia Laos and Vietnam.

A

french

85
Q

Who would become the leading voice against the french rule in vietnam?

A

Ho Chi Minh

86
Q

Ho Chi Minh means ?

A

one who enlightens

87
Q

who colonized vietnam and controlled it for over 100 years?

A

France

88
Q

national forces defeated french troops at __________ in the northwest vietnam.

A

Dien Bien Phu

89
Q

What was it called when france and vietnam came together in switzerland to discuss the future?

A

Geneva Peace Accords

90
Q

What was the theory that if vietnam fell to communism its neighbors would follow

A

Domino Theory

91
Q

who believed in the domino theory ?

A

eisenhower

92
Q

Who was the Leader of South Vietnam?

A

Ngo Dinh Diem

93
Q

What side did us support?

A

South vietnam

94
Q

South Vietnamese leader had restrictive policies on the buddhists which resulted in them _______.

A

self-ameliorating

95
Q

How was Diem overthrown?

A

Military coup in South Vietnam after diem ordered attacks on Buddhist pagodas.

96
Q

Turner Joy and the USS ______ was illegibly attacked in the ________.

A

maddox

gulf of tonkin

97
Q

after gulf of tonkin and maddox congress gave LBJ a ______.

This was called a ______.

A

a blank check to do what necessary to protect american intrests in vietnam

Gulf of tonkin resolution

98
Q

President johnson dramatically alters US role in vietnam and orders ________, the first sustained bombing campaign againts north vietnam.
does it work?

A

operation rolling thunder

NO

99
Q

Americans used _______ and _______ as weapons.

A

Napalm

Agent Orange

100
Q

What was Napalm ?

A

Jellied gasoline dropped in canisters that explode on impact. clings to everything

101
Q

What is Agent Orange ?

A

An herbicide meant to kill plant life. caused cancer.

102
Q

It was difficult to know who the enemy was in vietnam because _______.

A

Vietcong used mother nature to their advantage.

103
Q

______ became very unpopular and it was said to be unfair. _______ fought it disproportionately.

A

Military Draft

Minorities

104
Q

Term used to describe people who supported the vietnam war. pro military

A

hawks

105
Q

people who opposed the war in vietnam. anti-military

A

Doves

106
Q

What was the turning point of the war?

A

Tet Offense

107
Q

What was the achieved goal of the Tet Offense?

A

getting US to the bargaining table

108
Q

Who won at the Tet Offense?

A

A military defeat for the communist

but a psychological victory for the communists

109
Q

Nixon promised an election policy to ______. did this really happen? if no what did?

A

end the war
no
More deaths in his presidency than anyone else increased air attacks and brought war into laos and cambodia

110
Q

protests against Nixon turn deadly at _____.

A

kent state university

111
Q

what was made at the end of the war?

A

Paris Peace Agreement

112
Q

Final draft confirmed to end war in ____.

A

1973

113
Q

in 1975 North Vietnamese troops capture the presidential palace in ____.

A

saigon

114
Q

in 1976, Vietnam has a __________.

country unifies and is now just vietnam.

A

Unification Election

115
Q

communism still spreads to ________.

A

indochina

116
Q

vietnam war memorial was made in _____.

A

1983

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