Unit 8 and 9 Class Questions - Cold War Flashcards
Capitalism
Private ownership of means of production
Socialism
Shared ownership; sometimes by government or people
Communism
Extreme socialism - classless society; Karl Marx
Molotovs Visit
April after death of Franklin D. Roosevelt; Molotov engaged in talks with President Harry S. Truman - new American President; came to me mythologised decades (COLD WAR)
Manhattan Project
Top secret WWII govt program led by US - aimed at developing and deploying worlds first atomic weapons ultimately ushering in the nuclear age
Kennan Telegram
8,000 word telegram sent by George F. Kennan to State Department; became foundational document for US foreign policy during Cold War; outlined analyses of Soviet Union
Containment
US adopted policy containment - prevented expansion of Soviet communism - focused on blocking Soviet influence through political, economic, and military means
The Truman Doctrine
3/12/47
$400 million aid for Greece/Turkey in resisting communism
The Marshall Plan
6/3/48
$13 billion for the Economic Recovery Program
North Atlantic Treaty Org (NATO)
Transatlantic military alliance of 32 countries from North American to Europe - defense and security
Warsaw Pact
Military alliance by Soviet Union - counter NATO
Domino Theory
One nation falls to communism - other countries fall to communism
Khrushchev & De-Stalinization
De-stalinization: eradicating the memory of Joseph Stalin
Khrushchev: Mikita Sergeyevich Krushchev - First Secretary of Communist Party of Soviet Union
Perestroika
Restructuring
Glasnost
Openness
