Policy
What is containment? What is the first example we see of Containment in the Cold War
Stop the spread of Communism
The Berlin Airlift
What is NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
US/ allies
US supported what side in the Korean / Vietnam War
USSR supported what side in the Korean/Vietnam War
US: South
USSR: North
Time period where people were paranoid Communism was going to come to the United States
Red Scare
Period where tension cooled between the US and the USSR
Detente
Truman Doctrine
US would assist countries in Europe who are resisting communism
What was the Warsaw Pact
Alliance between the USSR and its eastern allies
What was the Gulf of Tokin incident
US claimed they were attacked by the North even though that never happened
Idea that whatever you decided to do to a country in nuclear war would then be done to you
Mutually Assured Destruction
Leader of the USSR that worked themselves out of a job when the USSR collapsed
Gorbachev:
Marshall Plan
political/ economic system where there is no classes and no private property
Where did the US use the CIA to help overthrow governments
Vietnam
Iran :
Guatemala
Chile
Cuba:
Describe Brinksmanship
Bringing the country to the edge of nuclear war
Program under Regan to protect the US from USSR missiles. Very expensive
Why didn't the USSR have a counter
Star Wars
It was expensive
What is the Domino Theory? What was the Domino that convinced the US to enter the Korean War
One country in an area falls to Communism, they all will
China fell to Communism
Why was the results of the Yalta Conference and Postdam so different
End of WW2. No longer have to work together. Stalin doesn't need to agree to free elections
Where did General McArthur want to expand the Korean War to? What did he want to use there?
China
Nuclear weapons
US Leader during the height of the Vietnam War
LBJ
How did public opinion change at the end of the Cold War
Anti-Nuclear War
Against the cost of the war
Against the US getting involved in conflict all over the world
What was the Eisenhower Doctrine? Where does the US get involved as a result
Pledge of the US to protect Middle Eastern countries from Communist attack
Afghanistan/ Iran
Why was the US mad at the USSR at the end of WW2
Why was the USSR mad at the US at the end of WW2
* USSR alliance with Germany/ Using the allied powers
* Not telling the USSR about the atomic bomb/ taking a while to attack Germany in Europe
Name two reasons why the Vietnam War hurt the relationship between the US govt and the people
false information about the start
cover up of war crimes
Lying about the success (or lack there of) to the people
The closest the world ever got to Nuclear Warfare was?
How was it resolved?
Cuban Missile Crisis
US removes weapons from Turkey, USSR removes weapons from Cuba
What policies allowed for some democratic/ capitalist ideas in the USSR
glasnost / perestroika