Cold War Origins
At this meeting, it was decided that Germany would be split up into sections controlled by former Allied countries.
What is the Yalta Conference?
This policy was enacted too provide aid to countries threatened by communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This idea meant that if one nuclear power attacked, both sides would be destroyed.
What is MAD, Mutually Assured Destruction?
This movement led by Gandhi called for nonviolent resistance to British rule in India.
What is the Quit India Movement?
The Cold War was fought indirectly through weaker countries.
What are Proxy wars?
They were the two main superpowers during the Cold War.
What is America and USSR?
This was the U.S. policy to prevent the spread of communism
What is containment?
This Soviet satellite launched in 1957 and helped begin the space race.
What is sputnik?
This Chinese campaign aimed to increase agriculture and industrialize the country rapidly.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
This policy divided the world into Communist and non-Communist spheres.
What is the Iron Curtain?
This event marked the unofficial beginning of the Cold War.
What is dropping the atomic bomb in WW2?
This would offer economic rebuilding aid to countries in an attempt to prevent the spread of communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
These long-range weapons could travel across continents and carry nuclear warheads.
What are ICBM's, intercontinental ballistic missiles?
This 1948 event led to the creation of a new Jewish state in the Middle East.
What is the creation of Israel?
This was created to guarantee the freedom and security of members through political AND military means
What is NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
This was created in 1945 to maintain world peace.
What is the United Nations?
This Cold War policy of relaxing tensions between the superpowers is called
What is detente?
This competition between the United States and the Soviet Union involved satellites and the moon landing.
What is the Space Race?
The National Liberation Front (FLN) launched a war against France in 1954 in this country.
What is Algeria?
This was created to provide for a unified military command and ability to strengthen soviet hold over soviet bloc.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Winston Churchill used this metaphor when describing Communist vs. non-Communist tension in Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
This 1972 agreement between Nixon and Brezhnev aimed to limit nuclear missiles.
What is SALT?
This was the first Soviet nuclear detonation.
What is RDS-1 “First Lightning”?
Name one of two major ways countries gained independence...
What are armed conflict or negotiations?
Truman believed that if one country fell to communism, others would soon follow...
What is the Domino Theory?