Cold War Origins
The US wanted to do this toward communism during the Cold War
Contain Communism
Wars in Vietnam. Korea and Afghanistan were fought to:
Contain or spread communism
Alliance featuring capitalist nations such as the US was called
NATO
Deng Xiaoping and Mao Zedong were this type of leader:
Dictator
Mikhail Gorbachev
The USSR had this goal during the Cold War
Spread Communism
This was the competition between the US and Soviet Union to build nuclear weapons
Arm's Race
The alliance featuring communist nations like the Soviet Union was called
Warsaw Pact
This event created by Mao led to a massive famine in China
Great Leap Forward
This created a division between east and west Berlin
Berlin Wall.
This was a term created to refer to the division Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War
Iron Curtain
Why was the US concerned about nuclear missiles in Cuba?
The were close geographically to the US.
Nations who wanted to be neutral during the Cold War joined the
This was an event created by Mao in order to eliminate his opposition and destroy Chinese culture
Cultural Revolution
Democracy
The Marshall Plan was designed to stop the spread of communism after WWII by
How did the end of the Korean War impact the Korean Peninsula as a whole?
It remained split/divided
This was an international organization created at the end of WWII to prevent war/conflict
United Nations
During this event, students in China protested for more freedoms and democracy.
Tiananmen Square Massacre
The collapse of the Berlin Wall signified this:
The end of the Cold War
The US and Soviet Union did not fight each other during the Cold War but had high levels of this:
Tension
Arms race impacted American people by creating a feeling of:
Fear of nuclear war.
Nations under the influence of the Soviet Union were called:
Satellite States
As the leader of China, Deng gave people this type of freedom, such as owning your own business.
Economic freedom.
Gorbachev created two plans which gave people of the Soviet Union political and economic rights. They were called:
Glasnost and Perestroika