Essential Terms
The imaginary line that separated the Eastern Block (communism), and the Western Block (democratic).
What was the Iron Curtain?
The royal family of Russia before the revolution. They ruled Russia for 300 years before the final family was executed during the revolution.
Who were the Romanovs?
This missile allowed countries the opportunity to launch a missile from one continent to another.
What was an ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile)?
Communist leader of North Vietnam.
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
This was not a part of the collapse but I wanted to add it in here... This program was created during the space race.
What was NASA?
The idea that if Vietnam fell to communism all other countries in the region would soon fall as well.
What was the Domino Theory?
This group of people acted as Vladimir Lenin's Communist Revolutionaries during the Russian Revolution.
Who were Bolsheviks?
A crisis that took place south of Florida. Communist leader Fidel Castro received nuclear weapons from the USSR which put the United States at risk. The conflict lasted 13 days.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The trail in which the North Vietnamese smuggled resources, weapons, and soldiers into South Vietnam.
What is the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of openness, this policy got rid of censorship and allowed criticism of the government.
What was Glasnost?
Joseph Stalin blockades the Western Democracies from entering Berlin. As a response the Western Democracies do this.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
What is Operation Vittles?
The Communist Manifesto was written by this person.
Who was Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels?
The Nuclear Arms Race begins after this event.
What is the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki?
Who were the Vietcong?
Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of restructuring. This introduced some capitalism into the economy.
What was Perestroika?
The alliance between Western Democracies that states if one country is attacked all other will respond in their defense.
What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
The Russian Revolution started in this year.
When was 1917?
The agreed upon idea that if nuclear weapons were launched it would lead to both the United States and the USSR launching all of their nuclear weapons.
What is M.A.D. (mutually, assured, destruction)?
The communist leader of North Vietnam had a goal to do this.
What is to unify Vietnam?
What was 1991?
Soviet-led military and political alliance formed on May 14, 1955, by the Soviet Union and seven Eastern European satellite states
What was the Warsaw Pact?
The Communist Manifesto told this group of people to do ________________. (two parts to this question)
What is the working class?
What is overthrowing the government?
The spread of nuclear material to other countries.
What is Nuclear Proliferation?
The U.S. dropped this type of bomb all over Vietnam. This bomb would blow up and cover everything in fire.
What is napalm?
Explain the fall of the Berlin Wall.
What was a media mistake?