Vocabulary
Policy of keeping communism from spreading
Containment
North Atlantic _______ Organization
Another word that means segregation or racism
The competition to have the best weapons in the world was called the ____ _____.
Arms Race
One way in which the ______ ____ and the Vietnam War are similar is that both developed Cold War tensions.
Korean War
a Soviet policy of openness to the free flow of ideas and information
Glasnot
An organization that was dedicated to keeping communism and peace to the Eastern part of the world
United Nations
Where would Apartheid take place?
Africa
The competition to have the best tools to gather intel on space was called the ______ ____.
Space Race
What line separated North and South Korea?
38th parallel
a policy of lessening Cold War tensions
Detente
_________ _____ was designed to stop the spread of communism by providing funds for recovery in war-torn Europe
Marshall Plan
This PERSON gave women equal rights in China
Mao Zedong
leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Stalin; leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Nikita Khrushchev
“Korea Divided at 38th Parallel”
“Hungarian Revolution Crushed”
“Missile Sites Spotted in Cuba”
The events in these headlines contributed to the tensions between _____________.
Superpowers/World Powers/Large countries
the willingness to go to the edge of war
Brinkmanship
American doctrine that was designed to keep the U.S. out of war, but would actually aid in getting us in war.
Truman Doctrine
One way in which the Great Leap Forward and the Four Modernizations are similar is that each was an attempt to increase _______ output and factory output.
Farming
One reason for the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 was to keep ______ Germans from fleeing to the Western sector of Berlin
East/Eastern
The Domino Theory applied to Vietnam or Korea?
Both
What kind of country is defined by "developing nations who were not aligned with either superpower during the Cold War"
Third World
The meeting/conference where Stalin would say Communism is necessary in the world
Yalta Conference
leader who instituted the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution
Mao Zedong
The destruction of the Berlin Wall and the breakup of the Soviet Union signify the end of the _____ ____.
Cold War
After World War II, global politics led to the rise of _____________ movements in Southeast Asia such as the movement against French imperial control in Vietnam.
Nationalist