Cold War Fundamentals
This policy was announced by the United States in 1947, aimed at containing the spread of communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This Chinese leader was instrumental in re-aligning China from alignment with the Soviet Union to opening relations with the United States in the 1970s.
Who is Mao Zedong?
This conflict began in 1950 when North Korean forces, supported by the Soviet Union and China, crossed the 38th parallel to invade South Korea, leading to United Nations-backed intervention led by the United States.
What is the Korean War?
This leader of the Guomindang and the Republic of China lost mainland China to the Communists in 1949 and retreated to Taiwan.
Who is Jiang Jieshi?
Known for his 1492 'discovery' of the 'new world' of the Americas on board his ship Santa Maria.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Formed during World War II, this military alliance included the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom, united against the Axis powers despite ideological differences.
What is the Grand Alliance?
This U.S. president initiated the policy of détente and visited China to improve relations during the Cold War.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This event in 1962 brought the world to the brink of nuclear war after the discovery of Soviet missiles in Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Also known as the Nationalist Party, this political party led by Jiang Jieshi fought against the Chinese Communists before and after World War II.
What is the Guomindang?
Japan invaded this nation in 1937 marking the start of the Second Sino-Japanese war.
Who is China?
This term, coined by Winston Churchill, described the division between the communist and non-communist life.
What is the Iron Curtain?
This Soviet leader introduced policies of 'glasnost' (openness) and 'perestroika' (restructuring) in the 1980s, leading to significant changes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This failed 1961 invasion was an attempt by Cuban exiles to overthrow Fidel Castro, supported by the U.S. CIA.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
This 1957 movement encouraged Chinese intellectuals to openly express their opinions of the communist regime. Mao Zedong later cracked down on those whose views were deemed too critical.
What is the Hundred Flowers Campaign?
A United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad; this doctrine was critical in American foreign policy throughout the Cold War.
What is Containment?
This plan proposed by U.S. Secretary of State in 1947 aimed to provide economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II to prevent the spread of communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This Soviet leader, known for his policy of de-Stalinization, led the USSR during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the early space race, including the launch of Sputnik.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
Joseph Stalin, imposed this from 24 June 1948 to 12 May 1949, cutting off all land and river transit between West Berlin and West Germany.
What is the Berlin Blockade?
This term refers to members of the middle class, whom Mao Zedong claimed had adopted capitalist tendencies and lifestyles, becoming targets during the Cultural Revolution.
Who are the bourgeois?
The founding and ruling political party of modern China, established in 1921 by Mao Zedong.
What is Communist Party of China (CPC)?
This term refers to the merger of the British, American, and French occupation zones in Germany in 1948, which later became West Germany.
What is Trizonia?
A Hungarian nationalist and reformed communist that demanded change during the Hungarian Uprising; was executed by the soviets.
Who is Imre Nagy?
This 1956 event was a spontaneous nationwide revolt against the Marxist-Leninist government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, brutally crushed by the Soviet army.
What is the Hungarian Uprising/Revolution?
This phrase was coined by Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong during his rise to power; utilizes symbolism and metaphor.
What is "All/Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun"?
During the Cold War President Jimmy Carter mediated peace talks between Egyptian President and Israeli Prime Minister, resulting in the signing of a these political agreements that realigned the power dynamics in the Middle East.
What are the Camp David Accords?