Soviet Union
The Soviet ideology centered on government-ran businesses and the equal allocation of wealth...
Communism
The American ideology centered on privately-owned businesses and free enterprise...
Capitalism
the 2 key proxy wars that occurred as part of the greater Cold War
Korea and Vietnam
Berlin
continent which contained the capital of the Soviet Union
Europe (Moscow)
Name for Stalin's initiative to transform the Soviet Union from an agrarian society to an industrial one...
5 Year Plan
United States President during key parts of the war, including the Cuban Missile Crisis and large portions of the Space Race
John F Kennedy
This country committed troops to aid North Korea when the American and South Korean advance threatened their own borders
China
This technological advancement, which brought an end to WWII, propelled the USA and USSR into an arms race in the years following its conception
the Atomic Bomb
The USSR placed missiles in this country due to its Communist ideals and close proximity to the USA...
Cuba
name for the region of Eastern European countries that were assimilated into the Soviet Union after WWII
the Eastern Bloc
name for the organized opinions of American citizens who saw the war in Vietnam as a conflict we should not concern ourselves with
Vietnam anti-war movement
the 38th Parallel
conference which divided post-war Germany into 'zones of control'
Yalta Conference
**DAILY DOUBLE**
Name 3 Communist states that emerged in the late 20th century besides the Soviet Union...
these 2 names (I'll take either one) both pertain to Mikhail Gorbachev's policies aimed at reforming Soviet politics and compromising with some Western ideals
Glasnost or Perestroika
failed Cuban coup which was backed and funded by the American government
Bay of Pigs Invasion
both the USA and USSR feared this would happen if they allowed an opposing ideology to flourish in any particular region of the world...
the domino effect (that ideology would continually spread elsewhere)
the two international alliances which formed in the years following WWII
NATO and the Warsaw Pact
In which 2 CollegeBoard regions did the Soviet states primarily exist?
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
**DAILY DOUBLE**
name 4 European states which were part of the Warsaw Pact
the US backed an overthrowing of a Communist-aligned political party in this nation in 1954
Guatemala
this document, signed by representatives from North Vietnam and the USA, brought United States' involvement in the war to an end...
the Paris Peace Treaty
This US President decided not to tell Stalin about the atomic bomb in the final months before its use. Truman would spill the beans though less than 6 months later...
Franklin D Roosevelt
Soviets invaded this country in 1979 in order to sway the outcome of a civil war and ensure the Communist movement prevailed...
Afghanistan