Events
A political scandal where US officials facilitated the sales of arms to Iran despite an arms embargo, funneling the money to the Contras in Nicaragua.
What is the Iran-Contra Affair?
American President who played a prominent role in the later stages of the Cold War, negotiating with Gorbachev on nuclear weapons.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
Soviet foreign policy that proclaimed any threat to socialist rule in any state in the Soviet sphere of influence to be a threat to all socialist states.
What is the Brezhnev Doctrine?
Launched in 1966, this movement aimed to preserve communism and purge remnants of capitalism and traditional society.
What is the Chinese Cultural Revolution?
A principle of modern international law that states that people have the right to freely choose their sovereignty and international political status with no interference.
What is the Principle of Self-Determination?
A naval confrontation between the United States and North Vietnamese that precipitated American involvement in the Vietnam War.
United States President who reduced US involvement in Vietnam, opened relations with China, and began detente with the Soviet Union.
Who is Richard Nixon?
The process where colonialism is undone as imperial powers relinquish control of former territories and colonies.
What is Decolonization?
A political scandal that led to the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon.
What is Watergate?
Written by George Kennan, this advocated for containing the Soviet Union and guided US policy during the early stages of the Cold War.
What is the Long Telegram?
A failed military coup directed by the United States in Cuba.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
Final leader of the Soviet Union who oversaw the dissolution of the Soviet Union and implemented democratization measures in the country.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
A multilateral military alliance established after World War Two that countered the threat posed by the Soviet Union. A collective security system.
What is NATO?
An armed campaign waged by the United States and its allies in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
What is the Gulf War?
An American initiative to provide foreign aid toe Western Europe. The United States transferred economic development and recovery aid to Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
A civil conflict in Nicaragua between the Contras and Sandinistas.
What is the Contra War/Sandinista Revolution?
Who is Henry Kissinger?
Popularized by Mikhail Gorbachev, a political slogan for increased government transparency.
What is Glasnost?
Negotiations that improved detente between the East and West, expanding economic cooperation and respect for human rights in the Soviet sphere of influence.
What is the Helsinki Conference?
A conflict in Southeast Asia between northern and southern Vietnam, the north supported by the Soviet Union and China and the south supported by the United States.
What is the Vietnam War?
A conference aimed at shaping postwar peace, emphasizing collective security and self-determination.
What is the Yalta Conference?
A Soviet politician who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party who restored collective leadership to the USSR. He pushed detente with the United States and strengthened Soviet dominance over Eastern Europe.
Who is Leonid Brezhnev?
At the end of the Cold War, this term was used to describe the United States' unprecedented position of power given the collapse of its rival the Soviet Union.
What is the Unipolar Moment?
A period of political liberalization in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, beginning in 1968. The Soviet Union invaded the country to suppress reforms.
What is the Prague Spring?
A proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear missiles.
What is Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (Star Wars)?