Cold War Vocabulary
Thawing of tensions between US and USSR
Detente
Which leader created the Five Years Plan?
Stalin
This treaty is known as SALT
What is Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty?
Which U.S. leader and Russian leader started the end of the Cold War in the 1980's?
President Reagan and Gorbachev
Who was the president at the start of the Cold War?
Harry Truman
US policy to prevent spread of communism
Containment
Which Soviet leader worked with Ronald Reagan during the Cold War?
Gorbachev
This country held the Helsinki Accords
What was one main spur for detente in Russia during the 1980's?
Money, Technology, [or] Civil unrest
Who was the president that encouraged Detente during the 1970's?
Richard Nixon
Independent trade union movement of Poland
Solidarity
Which Soviet leader signed SALT II?
List 2 effects of the Berlin Wall on East and West Germany.
West Germany prospers, Families are split, Increased Cold War tension, Industrialization of East Germany
Who was the president that encouraged the Adam For Peace Agreement?
Dwight Eisenhower
Normalization of relations between East and West Germany
Ostpolitik
What agreement did Khrushchev reach with Kennedy post-Cuban Missile?
The Soviet Union would take missiles out of Cuba if the US took missiles out of Turkey.
This 1949 agreement divided Germany into four (4) military occupation zones.
What is the Potsdam Conference?
What year was the border between East and West Germany guarded more securely and erected out of barbed wire and barriers? What year was the Berlin Wall?
1958 and 1961
Who was the president at the start of Vietnam?
Lyndon B. Johnson
Soviet policy of restructuring the economic and political system (Gorbachev)
Perestroika
What were the dates of the Cuban Missile Crisis and how long did it last? (include, month-day-year)
October 16th, 1962 - October 28th, 1962
13 days
These leaders attended the Camp David Accords in 1978.
Who are Begin, Sadat and Carter?
When did the Cuban Missile Crisis start (when were missiles confirmed to be in Cuba)?
October 16th, 1962
Who was the president during the Oil Crisis?
Jimmy Carter