Important People
The dictator of the Soviet Union who believed that he should control a majority of Europe after WWII.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
The time period when fighting was done by using money and words instead of guns and soldiers.
What is the Cold War?
The symbol of the differences between communist and noncommunist countries.
What is the Iron Curtain?
A policy written by President Truman to contain communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
An understanding in which two opposing nuclear-armed powers possess enough weapons to destroy each other completely, ensuring that any nuclear attack by one would result in the total annihilation of both
What is M.A.D.?
Who is Winston Churchill?
An organization set up for nations to trade peacefully with one another and to help stop the spread of communism throughout the world.
What is NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
Ordinary people and businesses control the production of goods and services.
What is capitalism?
A conflict between North Vietnam (communist) and South Vietnam (non-communist). The U.S. tried to stop the spread of communism, but failed. South Vietnam became communist 2 years after the war ended.
What is the Vietnam War?
treaty aimed at preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons and promoting eventual nuclear disarmament by states that already possess nuclear weapons
What is the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)?
The president who took over after Franklin D. Roosevelt's death and who tried to stop the spread of communism.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
When the U.S. used planes to drop food and supplies to help the people of West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
The government controls production and owns the nation's natural and capital resources.
What is communism?
An agreement to stop fighting.
What is a cease-fire?
What is SALT 2?
An anti-communist who believed there were communist spies working for the U.S. government.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
Khrushchev placed missiles in Cuba after being behind in the arms race. The Soviet Union removes them only when the U.S. promises not to invade Cuba. This became known as the __________________.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
President that feared a nuclear attack from the Soviet Union and ordered a blockade around Cuba.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
An incursion on Christmas Eve 1979 which lead to a change in leadership and an abrupt end to a period of improved superpower relations
What is the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan?
This capped the number of ICBMs and SLBMs each country could have.
What is SALT 1?
The Soviet leader who helped Fidel Castro set up a communist government in Cuba and ordered the construction of the Berlin Wall.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
An uprising in eastern Europe led by a prime minister that was triggered by frustration over lack of political freedoms and economic problems the country faced.
What is the Hungarian uprising (led by Imre Nagy)?
This was built to keep the people of East Berlin from fleeing to West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Wall?
The U.S. president who promised to bring the troops home from Vietnam; he was elected in 1968.
Who is Richard Nixon?
Agreement which stated that the human rights in each country would be respected.
What are the Helsinki Accords?