Countries
What country was divided into east and west in Europe?
Germany
Russia and US are known as ____________.
Super Powers
Who was the leader after WW2?
Stalin
Two superpowers never confronted one another in open warfare.
Cold War
What does NATO stand for?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Name one satellite country.
Poland, Hungary, East Germany
This was country was created after WW2 by other democratic countries.
Israel
Which Russia leader introduced Perestrokia?
Gorbachev
The policy of preventing a hostile country from expanding.
Containment
Name two countries in the Warsaw Pact.
Soviet Union, ALbania, poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Bulgaria, Cechoslovia
Are Spain, France , and UK democratic or communist?
Communist
What organization was created after World War 2 that we currently belong to?
United Nations
Who introduced communism to China?
Mao
War that took place 1954- 1975; US lost
Vietnam War
What term is the imaginary line separating the communist countries and the western countries.
Iron Curtain
Which country developed the Marshal Plan, it gave european coutries aid to recover from WW2?
United States
The easing of strained relations between US and Russia
Detente
Who developed the idea of communism? Name one creator
Marx and Engel
Soviet Union fought against a group and lost; 1979-1989.
Afghanistan War
A country's military establishment and those industriesproducing arms or other materials.
Military- Industrial Complex
Which country won a war against the US in the 1970's?
Vietnam
This document supported free peoples of Turkey and Greece and tried to contain communism.
Truman Doctrine
Who was the US President who told the Russians to "Take down this Wall" ?
Ronald Reagan
Maintaining peace through an organization of nations; pledged to defend each other against attack.
Collective Security
A military strategy that involves responding to an attack with a much stronger counter attack.
Massive Retaliation