Terms
worried about soviet expansion into the mediterranean created the doctrine in 1947 said that the US would provide money to countries (Greece and Turkey) that were threatened by communist expansion.
What alliances led to the Berlin Airlift?
Berlin Airlift- Germany was cut into 4 pieces and Berlin was Deep in Soviet area. The other three areas were US, Britain and France who were in cahoots to get together. Soviet Untion set up a blockade of West Berlin (no trucks, trains or boats to enter) SO American and British flew in air supplies of food and other things and dropped them in Berlin for 10 months.
What is the Cold War?
A period of intense political and ideological rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union.
How did the Chinese Civil War come about?
Chinese Civil War- two governments lived in China North- communist Mao Zedong and south- democratic supported by the US Chiang Kai-Shek. An effort to form a coalition government failed and it devolved into a civil war.
Who is Stalin?
The ruler of the USSR and fearful that liberated nations of eastern europe would be anti-soviet if they were permitted to have free elections. Stayed in the conquered areas and set up pro-Soviet regimes.
Arms Race
building up armies and stores of weapons to keep up with an enemy. Hydrogen bomb, Intercontinental ballistic missiles between who?
What did China want the Soviet Union to help them regain?
Taiwan.
Who supported North Korea?
Who supported South Korea?
North- Communists (Stalin and Soviet Union)
South- Anti-Communists (US)
What is the Red Guard?
revolutionary groups composed of unhappy party members and discontented young people. They sought out those who were questioning the rule of land. Destroyed temples, beat people up.
Batista
Cuban dictator who was overthrown by Fidel Castro in 1959.
Proxy War
When two powers in conflict use substitutes instead of fighting each other directly.
What was the Soviet Union's alliance called and with whom? Name two countries
Warsaw Pact: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania.
In the Vietnam War who was winning? Why is that important?
The US poured money and troops in Vietnam, but could not win the war and people back home were getting more and more against the war.
What is the Great Leap Forward? How did it go?
Chinese government launched a new program to build a socialist society. Collective farms were combined into vast communes-where 30,000 who lived and worked together there. DISASTER, not enough food
Khrushchev
Soviet Leader after Stalin that built the Berlin Wall and negotiated with JFK about the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
CIA had a plan to send exiled cuban fighters to invade Cuba at the Bay of pigs to cause a revolt against Castro- disaster and they surrendered and were captured.
Name three countries that were part of NATO with the US?
EXTRA 100: What does it stand for?
Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Netherlands GB, Italy, Denmark, Norway Portugal and Iceland, US, Canada later Greece and Turkey.
500- (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
What is the 38th parallel?
This is where Korea was split between North Korea and South.
Who is Deng Xiaoping?
leader in China after the cultural revolution sought to improve relations with the West after much tension with the USSR
George Kennan
US diplomat with knowledge of the Soviet Union wanted a policy of containment to keep communism within its existing boundaries to prevent Soviet aggressive moves.
What is a "hot war" and how did it contribute to the domino theory?
Hot war is the military conflict of differing nations (Like in Vietnam and Korea) it led to the idea that if one country falls to communism neighboring countries will also fall.
How was the Marshall Plan seen as an alliance?
to prevent the spread of communism, Marshall plan provided $13 billion to rebuild war torn Europe. (Soviets saw it as an attempt to buy the support of smaller European countries)
What ended up happening at the end of the Vietnam war?
The US had to withdraw its forces (as losers) and the Communist north forcibly reunited the country of Vietnam.
What is the Cultural Revolution?
" Great revolution to creat a proletarian (working class) culture." This is where the little red book became an important part of knowledge passed to people.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
The head of the communist party that was elected president of Hanoi (North Vietnam)