Early Cold War Foundations
This term was used to describe the symbolic division of Europe between communist East and democratic West during the Cold War.
This idea said that communism would spread from one country to neighboring countries and was the justification for U.S. intervention into global conflicts.
What is the Domino Theory?
This leader of China who launched the Cultural Revolution to strengthen communism and maintain control.
Who is Mao Zedong?
This war ended in a stalemate with a divide between the two sides at the 38th parallel.
What is the Korean War?
This was a competition between the U.S. and USSR to achieve advancements in space exploration.
What is the Space Race?
This military alliance formed by the United States and its allies was made to resist the spread of communism.
What is NATO?
This U.S. program that provided financial aid to rebuild European economies after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This was a movement in China (1966–1976) that aimed to enforce communist ideology and eliminate opposition to Mao.
What is the Cultural Revolution?
This war in Southeast Asia ended with a united country under a communist regime.
What is the Vietnam War?
The is the term for the policy of stopping the spread of communism.
What is containment?
A military alliance created by the Soviet Union and its satellite states in response to NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This U.S. policy gave financial support to countries resisting communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
A group of young people in China who were encouraged to support Mao and attack traditional ideas and leaders.
What are the Red Guards?
This is the term for conflicts where the United States and Soviet Union supported opposing sides in smaller regional wars instead of directly fighting each other.
What are proxy wars?
This term was a Cold War policy where the United States and Soviet Union built up so many nuclear weapons that neither side would risk using them.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction (M.A.D.)?
This international organization created after WWII to promote peace and cooperation between countries.
What is the United Nations?
This event was a U.S. and Allied response to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin, where supplies were flown into the city to keep it functioning.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This was a series of centralized economic goals used by communist governments, including China under Mao, to rapidly increase industrial and agricultural production.
What is the Five-Year Plan
This was a 1962 confrontation that pushed the U.S. and U.S.S.R. extremley close to nuclear war.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis
This is the vocab term for a strategy used during the Cold War where countries came very close to war without actually starting one in order to force the other side to back down.
What is brinkmanship?
This document created after WWII that outlines basic human rights and freedoms for all people.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
This was a failed U.S.-backed invasion of Cuba aimed at removing Fidel Castro.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
This earlier campaign led by Mao Zedong attempted to rapidly transform China from an agricultural society into an industrial communist society, but it resulted in widespread famine and economic failure.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
This Soviet leader introduced major reforms such as glasnost and perestroika to help the USSR.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This is the term for the period of eased tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
What is détente?