Vocab
The plan to rebuild Europe after World War II, involved the United States giving Europe money that resulted in an "economic miracle"
Marshall Plan
US President during the Cuban Missile Crisis
John F. Kennedy
Term for when the Soviet Union and the United States would compete against each other through conflicts within/between developing nations:
Proxy Wars
Identify the year of final Soviet collapse
1991
Name one of Mr. Nydle's favorite movies
Mean Girls
Inglorious Basterds
Donnie Darko
Ghostbusters
Harold and Kumar go to White Castle
Military alliance of Western European countries, Canada, and the USA
NATO
Complete psycho leader of Cuba who led its Communist Revolution in 1959:
Fidel Castro
In proxy conflicts, the United States would support the _____ side and the Soviets, Koreans, and Chinese would support the _____ side.
Anti-communist, Communist
Describe ONE cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union
Gorbachev's Reforms
Soviet-Afghan War
Pope John Paul II visits Poland
Chernobyl
Western Influence
On Wednesdays we.....
Wear pink
During the Cold War, neither the USA or the USSR would use their nukes because they knew the other side would bomb them. The term to describe this deterrence is:
Mutually Assured Destruction
We gave this resistance fighter money, resources, and weaponry to fight off the Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan
Osama bin Laden
The Soviets invaded this nation in 1979 to prop up a Communist uprising, and the US provided aid to anti-Communist rebels:
Afghanistan
DAILY DOUBLE!
When it came to Soviet bloc nations wanting to leave the USSR, Gorbachev practiced the "Sinatra Doctrine". Explain this.
Nations could have more than one political party, with fair elections, and they could leave Soviet control if they wanted
The USSR and the USA both argued that life was better in their respective powers for what group of people?
WOMEN!
DAILY DOUBLE!
Name the two reforms under Gorbachev:
Perestroika
Glasnost
Final leader of the Soviet Union: likes pizza
Mikhail Gorbachev
The name for newly independent countries from colonization following World War II:
Third World Countries
Non-aligned movement
This term by the CIA refers to unintended consequences in the present that happened due to actions taken during the Cold War:
Blowback
Describe Article V of the NATO charter
"If you attack one NATO nation, all respond"
The boundary dividing East and West Europe into Communist and non-Communist
Iron Curtain
DAILY DOUBLE:
Name all the Presidents who served during the Cold War:
Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, H.W. Bush
This war lasted over 20 years, resulted in the death of 50,000 Americans, and over a million civilians, with the nation remaining Communist afterwards
Vietnam
Explain how the Cuban missile crisis was resolved:
The Soviets removed their missiles out of Cuba and the US removed theirs from Turkey, Italy, and Greece
DAILY DOUBLE!
The name of the rebels who fought against the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan
Mujahideen