Post WW2
This is the first post-WW2 conference where Stalin promised free elections in Eastern Europe and the Big Three decided to separate Germany into 4 zones of occupation.
What is the Yalta Conference?
This is the first proxy war that involved the USSR and the US.
What is the Korean War?
This is what Nixon and Kruschev signed during detente.
The first nuclear treaties.
The US's plan to send foreign aid to Europe to rebuild and promote the global economy.
What is the Marshall Plan?
Northern Vietnamese forces wanted to establish this kind of economy in Vietnam and were supported by the Soviet Union.
What is communist?
Detente is a French word meaning this.
What is relaxation?
In 1961, Stalin began building this in Berlin to stop East Berliners from defecting from the Soviet Union. It eventually included barbed wire, guard towers, and a "death strip."
What is the Berlin Wall?
An American political policy designed to stop communist influence from spreading, but not to destabilize the USSR. This is the diplomatic policy that brought about proxy wars.
Containment policy
The distribution of nuclear technology to multiple countries
What is nuclear proliferation?
The military alliance that bound the Soviet satellite nations. A response to NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
The Maddox Affair set off this proxy war. Later it was leaked to the American public that this event never actually took place.
What is the Vietnam War?
This is what brought the decade of detente to an end.
What is the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
This is a collection of nations who did not want to take part in the Cold War and vowed total neutrality.
This was the time period during which nuclear war was the most likely and almost occurred. It happened because the US placed a "quarantine" on ICBM's getting to an island nation south of Florida.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?