People
led an anti-Communist movement in Poland
Lech Walesa
Communist agents in South Vietnam who worked to bring all of Vietnam under Communist control
Viet Cong
What action by the Soviets prompted an around-the-clock airlift by the United States and Britain?
Berlin Blockade
To minimize the hostility between Hindus and Muslims in India, Britain partitioned India into what two nations?
India and Pakistan
In 1957 Soviet scientists launched -----, the first man-made satellite.
Sputnik 1
established communism in Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
economic plan to double steel and agricultural production in China
Great Leap Forward
Name two ways in which the United States and the Soviet Union tried to dominate each other during the Cold War.
Developing new weapons
conflict between other nations
Name one of three factors that hindered growth in new African countries following decolonization.
1. No experience with a free market economy
2. Some leaders believed that socialism would bring countries out of poverty
3. Leaders were corrupt
What were two motivations for détente
The arms race was expensive
They feared mass destruction
established a free market in West Germany
Konrad Adenauer
site of a daring attack by UN forces in the Korean Peninsula
Inchon
According to the policy of MAD, why would stockpiling weapons prevent war?
If both sides have weapons and are equally capable of destroying on another, they won't risk attacking knowing they will be struck too.
The ----Declaration was the first official recognition by a world power that the Jews needed their own land.
Balfour
a military alliance that committed the United States and its Western European allies to mutual defense.
NATO
established a doctrine that said the Soviet Union would intervene anytime an existing socialist government was threatened
Leonid Brezhnev
site that UN forces were forced back across by the entry of Chinese Communist troops into the Korean Peninsula
38th parallel
the period when the United States and the Soviet Union were not officially at war but did not have a peaceful relationship either.
Cold War
Under the US policy of ---- the United States would not go to war but would just try to keep the Soviets from expanding their influence.
containment,
Doctrine was an American policy that offered help to any nation threatened by communism.
Truman
introduced the policies of perestroika and glasnost in the Soviet Union
Mikhail Gorbachev
movement to relax tensions brought about by concerns over the nuclear arms race
détente
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Name three areas of technological competition during the Cold War.
Military
Nuclear
Space
Solidarity was an anti-Communist movement in ______.
Poland
Reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union?
economic weakness
dissatisfaction within the Soviet bloc
failed ventures