Cold War Begins
Two reasons for the tensions that led to the Cold War.
What are distrust of the USSR after WWII, Soviet distrust of US military superiority, and the tension between communism and free market capitalism.
At this line of latitude Korea is separated between North and South.
What is the 38th parallel (or 38 degrees latitude).
Why did the superpowers become involved in an arms race?
If one appeared to be making gains, the other felt threatened.
This Communist lead the fight for independence from France in Vietnam.
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
President Nixon was the first to employ this method of foreign policy with the USSR.
What was detente?
These were attempts to stop the spread of communism in Europe.
What is containment, Marshall Plan, Berlin Airlift, and the Truman Doctrine?
Truman encouraged the UN to defend South Korea and made this general in charge of combat in Korea.
Who is general Douglas MacArthur?
What form did United States intervention in Latin America take during the Cold War?
The US often supported the noncommunist forces in Latin American civil wars.
This Resolution led to America's involvement in the civil war in Vietnam.
What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
War with this nation led the Soviet Union to be weakened and then more easily collapsed by the West.
What is Afghanistan?
These military alliances emerged during the Cold War.
What are NATO, the Warsaw Pact, and the UN?
In 1952 this presidential candidate, who was a general in WWII, pledged to open peace talks in Korea after a year of stalling.
Who was Dwight Eisenhower?
How did the superpowers come to the brink of war over Cuba?
Castro let the USSR build missile bases in Cuba, and the US set up a naval blockade to stop Soviet ships.
The Vietnam War affect American life in these ways.
1. Johnson did not seek reelection.
2. it became a focus of opposition for youth culture (hippie movement)
3. it led some to avoid the draft... more
Why did the Soviet Union collapse?
These two crises raised Cold War tensions.
What are the Communist take over of China and the reveal that the USSR had been testing atomic weapons?
What is the Communist party?
For this reason superpower rivalries spread to Africa and Asia.
African and Asian nations were gaining independence from colonial rule, in their infancy the U.S. and U.S.S.R fought for influence over these nations.
This event caused many Americans to see the War in Vietnam as futile, but still the war went on for 5 more years.
What is the Tet Offensive?
What were two results of the Cold War?
The US was the only superpower in the world.
Several nations were heavily armed with nuclear weapons and missile systems.
As East Germany is to the Soviet Union, so to is Puerto Rico to the United States.
What is a satellite nation?
In December 1954, the senate passed an official condemnation of McCarthy, as known as this resolution.
What is a censure?
He was the Soviet leader in 1959. Before the UN, he spoke first calmly then became so impatient and angry that he took off his shoe and pounded it on the table.
Who was Nikita Krushchev?
Who was the last leader of the Soviet Union?