🧠 Basics
USA system; money + business freedom 💵
capitalism
Soviet Union economic system
communism
Who supported Mao's revolution?
peasants (poor farmers)
What U.S. doctrine focused on stopping communism?
Truman Doctrine
This is a French word for easing tension between countries
Detente
Which one thinks more about "self" than the group?
a. individualism
b. collectivism
a. individualism
Which superpower controlled Czechoslovakia and other Eastern European countries?
Soviet Union/USSR
This plan in China caused great famine (no food)
The Great Leap Forward
Both the Korean and Vietnam wars were p________ wars.
proxy
A miles long wall in Germany. It's fall represented the end of communism in Eastern Europe.
The Berlin Wall
Who won the Cold War?
The United States
True or False: Switzerland remained neutral (did not fight) in the Cold War
True
Which Chinese leader used propaganda such as posters to influence people?
Mao
How do historians view the United States' participation in the Vietnam War?
as a defeat/loss
What policy led by Gorbachev that allowed for openness in the Soviet government
glasnost
his invisible line divided Eastern and Western EuropeT
The Iron Curtain
A m_________ economy focuses on buying and selling. (USA)
market
Name a country/area outside of Europe that the USSR/Soviet Union was trying to influence.
(various answers)
Which did NOT help end the Cold War?
A. New ideas by Gorbachev 🔄
B. More freedom in Eastern Europe 🗽
C. More nuclear weapons being built 💣
D. Cooperation with the West 🤝
C. More nuclear weapons being built 💣
Which type of government controls everything in a society?
totalitarianism
This type of zone created space between the USSR and its enemies
buffer zone
word for many deaths from hunger
famine
This event almost caused a full-on nuclear war
Cuban Missile Crisis
Which U.S. president worked with Gorbachev in the late 1980s to help end the Cold War?
Ronald Reagan