Causes & Early Tensions
What type of government did the United States support?
What is a Democracy?
What U.S. policy aimed to stop the spread of communism?
What is containment?
The first major WWII conference between Allied leaders
What is the Tehran Conference?
The war fought between North and South Korea?
What is the Korean War?
The year the Soviet Union collapsed.
What was 1991?
The type of government supported by the Soviet Union.
What is totalitarianism?
What program gave money to rebuild Europe after WWII?
What is the Marshall Plan?
The nickname for Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin
Who are the Big Three?
The line that divided North and South Korea after the war.
What is the 38th Parallel?
The competition to build more and stronger weapons
What is the arms race?
The name of the U.S. policy of stopping the spread of communism.
What is containment?
What policy promised support to countries resisting communism?
The conference where plans for postwar Europe were discussed before WWII ended
What is the Yalta Conference?
In both Korea and Vietnam, the U.S. was trying to prevent this system from spreading
What is communism?
The idea that both sides would be destroyed in a nuclear war? (It's an acronym).
What is Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)?
The term for the division between Eastern and Western Europe (Churchill created this term).
What is the Iron Curtain?
What plan helped rebuild and democratize Japan after WWII?
What is the MacArthur plan?
The conference held after WWII that showed increased tension between the U.S. and Soviet Union
What is the Potsdam Conference?
The idea that if one country fell to communism, others nearby would follow
What is the domino theory?
This Soviet leader introduced reforms like glasnost and perestroika
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
One major cause of tension between the U.S. and Soviet Union after WWII?
What are different ideologies, distrust, or Soviet control of Eastern Europe?
- Communism vs. Capitalism
- Soviet Control of E. Europe
How are the Marshall Plan and MacArthur Plan different?
What is the Marshall Plan rebuilt Europe, while the MacArthur Plan rebuilt and democratized Japan?
A major decision made about Germany after WWII
What is the division of Germany into zones?
These types of conflicts were fought between other countries but were influenced by the U.S. and Soviet Union
What are proxy wars?
How did reforms like glasnost and perestroika contribute to the end of the Cold War?
What is they weakened government control and led to the collapse of the Soviet Union?