Cold War Policies
Postwar European Leaders
Agreements
Eastern Bloc
Postwar America
100
Because the communist forces threaten to take over Greece and Turkey after WW II President Truman pledged $400 million in American aid.
What was the Truman Doctrine?
100
This French leader's pragmatic approach used nationalism in foreign and domestic policy.
Who was Charles de Gaulle?
100
The SALT II Treaty negotiated between Carter and Brezhnev was defeated after the Soviets invaded this Middle Eastern nation.
What is Afghanistan?
100
Infamous prisons built in Siberia under Stalin's leadership.
What were the Gulags?
100
Considered the high tide of the Civil Rights Movt. when 250,000 demonstrators heard MLK's I have a Dream Speech.
What was the March on Washington?
200
American diplomat George Kennan developed this new policy in response to Soviet expansion in the Long Telegram.
What was the Containment Policy?
200
He served as chancellor and head of the CDU leading the way for the W. German Economic Miracle.
Who was Konrad Adenauer?
200
This arms control treaty limited the number of anti-ballistic missile systems between the superpowers.
What was the ABM Treaty?
200
Besides promoting consumerism in the Soviet Union Krushchev eased this restriction allowing Solzhenitsyn' Gulag Archipelago and Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago to be published.
What was censorship?
200
General bipartisan agreement on most domestic and foreign policy issues during Eisenhower's presidency.
What was the Eisenhower Consensus?
300
President Nixon's new strategy in easing tensions between the superpowers resulting in arms control and establishing relations with Communist China.
What was Detente?
300
British Prime Minister that lead the Labour Party in 1945 and 1950.
Who was Clement Atlee?
300
Under Nixon's Detente policy the United States and the Soviet Union successfully negotiated this first nuclear arms control agreement.
What was SALT I Treaty?
300
The Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia's 1968 Prague Spring led to this policy towards satellite nations until the Cold War ended.
What was the Brezhnev Doctrine?
300
New transportation network linking most American cities in the 1950s.
What is the Interstate HWY System?
400
Attitude that developed by the United States during the 1950s and 60s towards the communist nations threatening the use of nuclear weapons.
What was Brinkmanship?
400
Conservative British Prime Minister during the later 1950s that opposed the Labour Party's socialism.
Who was Winston Churchill?
400
Limited the atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons.
What was the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty?
400
In 1956 the Soviet Union invaded this satellite nation because of potential free elections there.
What was Hungary?
400
Postwar law that offered returning veterans' college, housing and job opportunities.
What was the GI Bill?
500
Led by Yugoslavia and other neutral nations in the 3rd world opposing the dominance of the two superpowers.
What was the Non-Alignment Movt.?
500
She was the longest reigning constitutional monarch in British History.
Who was Elizabeth II?
500
Led by France and W. Germany this new association emerged in the postwar period emphasizing economic cooperation and trade.
What was the European Economic Community or EEC?
500
Famous German city divided by this wall.
What was Berlin?
500
This social movement developed in the late 1960s opposed to traditional American values and involving drug use. Remember the hippies!
What was the Counter Culture Movt.?