Plans/Policies/Places
This plan provided $13 billion dollars in aid from the US to anti-communist countries in Europe
The Marshall Plan
This proxy war in Asia ended in a divided country, with a Communist North and Capitalist/democratic South, along the 38th parallel.
The Korean War
Improved upon its previous form, the League of Nations
The United Nations
US President during the Cuban Missile Crisis
John F. Kennedy
Leader of the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War
Mikhail Gorbachev
Named after a US president, this policy aimed to prevent the spread of Communism around the world
The Truman Doctrine
This proxy war resulted in a Communist victory and a mass migration of people out of the country. A large number of these refugees now reside in Orange County, CA
The Vietnam War
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This imaginary border split Communist Eastern Europe with Capitalist/democratic Western Europe
The Iron Curtain
Leader of North Korea during the Cold War
A policy meaning "openness" that led to increased free speech and press in the USSR
Glasnost
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The failed invasion in this location set the scene for the eventual Cuban Missile Crisis
The Bay of Pigs
This proxy war event only lasted 13 days, but was the closest the world came to nuclear war
This organization was made to protect the US and its allied democratic/capitalist nations from being attacked by the Soviet Union
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Communist leader of Cuba
Fidel Castro
A Soviet "restructuring" of the economy that allowed to the opening of small businesses
Perestroika
This European city was split into East and West, with a wall built in it to prevent people from escaping the Communist side
Berlin
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The Korean War began due to an invasion of the _____________ by the _________________
South; North
Communist NATO
The Warsaw Pact
Communist leader of Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
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The biggest country left behind after the fall of the Soviet Union
Russia
Led by the Red Guard, Chinese youths participated in this event, which led to the persecution of intellectuals.
The Cultural Revolution
An alleged attack in this place near the coast of Vietnam served to increase US presence in the Vietnam conflict
The Gulf of Tonkin Incident
__________ countries are ones that are controlled remotely by the Soviet Union during the Cold War; also an object that orbits in space
satellite
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US President during the Vietnam War
Lyndon B. Johnson
The collapse of this standing structure in Germany marked the end to a major era of the Cold War
The Berlin Wall