The Cold War and Nationalism Flashcards
1943; USSR was guaranteed to be only power to liberate Eastern Europe
Tehran Conferance
1945 Stalin pledges democratic election for Eastern Europe; Germany divided to not allow unification
Yalta Conference
Truman demanded free elections for Eastern Europe; Stalin wants a buffer zone in Eastern Europe
Potsdam Conference
made by Churchill; an ____ had descended across the continent of Europe and Russia
“Iron Curtain” SPeech
‘Federal Republic of Germany’; an independent country by 1949; federal republic; led by Konrad Adenauer
West Germany
‘German Democratic Republic’; established 1949; democratic republic of Germany; led by Walter Ulbricant
East Germany
civil war in east; turkey under pressure from USSR for Dardanelles; Britain has helped, but asks US to take over; ‘we are going to help with finical aid and assistance if they are trying to resist overthrow by communism’
Truman Doctrine
in 1947 US pledged to prevent the spread of communism; George Kennan brain child
containment
also known as “European Recovery Program”; brain child of Secretary of State, George Marshall; 1948; ‘The US should provide aid to all European nations that need it. This move is not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos.’; 12.5 billion of US aid to Western Europe, extended to Eastern Europe and USSR, but were refused
Marshall Plan
soviets attempt to get allies out of Berlin; all roads blocked and electricity cut; high tension point in Cold War; massive US airlift of 277,000 into city carrying supplies (landed every forty five seconds); lifted 11 months later in 1949
Berlin Airlift
(North Atlantic Treaty Organization) founded as response to Berlin Crisis; collective security, membership non optional, 12 member nations; still intact today
NATO
1955; anti-NATO -people republic of china in 1949 Mao Zedong won Chinese Revolution
Warsaw Pact
was developed by US in 1952, and by USSR in 1953; more destructive than atomic bomb
Hydrogen Bomb
is a military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which a state commits itself to retaliate in much greater force in the event of an attack.
“massive retaliation”
Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania
Eastern Bloc
head of the USSR, worked to earn more land
Joseph Stalin
forced labor camps
gulags
dominated Yugoslavia but not by the Soviets (person)
Josip Broz Tito
emerges to rule USSR a few years after Stalin dies; realized reforms were needed (reduction in secret police power, closure of gulags, AG is in bad shape, sufficient shortage of consumer goods, poor living conditions) and these reforms were part of De-Stalinization
Khrushchev
Khrushchev denounces Stalin’s crimes in closed session; secret anti-Stalin speech; most influential statement in Russia since April Thesis
De-Stalinization
Khrushchev anti-Stalin speech; denounces Stalin
20th Party Congress speech
the resources shifted from heavy industry and military to goods and AG; centralized economic planning
Gosplan
wrote Dr. Zhivago about an intellectual who rejects brutality of blush avid revolution in 1917 and Stalinism and is ultimately destroyed
Pasternak
wrote One Day in the Life Ivan Denisovich portrays in grim detail a Stalinist gulag where he had been a prisoner
Solzenitsyn
1956; Nagy elected prime minister; let some demonstrations; want non communist government legalized; turned into armed rebellion and spread; hoped for US support; soviet tanks and troops took down uprising; Kadar became new prime minister
Hungarian Uprising
sought by Khrushchev with the west so he could focus on improving the Soviet economy; between US and SU
“Peaceful Coexistence”
the USSR agreed in 1955 to real independence for neutral Austria after 10 years of Allie occupation; lessen of tensions 1955 to 57
Austrian Independence
1955; in Geneva, Switzerland; USSR met with Us, Britain, and France to begin discussions on European security and disarmament; no agreement reached
Geneva Conference
First artificial satellite in space; was Russian satellite sent into orbit and brought back in 1957; major scientific achievement; began the space race
Sputnik
the Russian satellite Sputnik started this
“space race”
open skies, taking plane pictures over Moscow; Col. Francis Powers’ plane was shot down over Soviet airspace; pilot caught alive and sentenced to ten years in prison for espionage
U-2 Incident
goes up to seperate east and west Germany to keep allies out; checkpoint Charlie was the only way through; 1963 Kennedy tells Berliners that west is with them ‘Ich bin ein Berliner” meaning I am a Berliner
Berlin Wall
US was going to train Cuban exiles to get into Cuba to overthrow Castro; overall failyre
Bay of Pigs Invasion