WESTERN BLOC
A coalition of nations with the goal of containing communist expansion.
What is the Western Bloc?
Soviet led economic alliance to help its member countries in economic related matters. It was formed in response to the Marshall Plan
What is COMECON?
1)The supporters of the victors in the Greek Civil War
2) The victors of the Greek Civil War.
1)Who are the USA and the UK?
2)Who were the monarchists?
The line used to divide Korea
What is the 38N parallel?
1) The year that Vietnam was divided into North and South
2) The years that the USA was involved in the Vietnam War
1) What was 1954?
2) What were the years 1964-1973?
The organization created in 1949 with the goal of creating a defensive alliance against future attacks
What is NATO?
An alliance that provided military assistance to its members against possible attacks by the Western Bloc. It was formed in response to NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
The term used to define the climate of tension between the two super powers
What is the Bipolar Order?
FRG and GDR
1)The barricade constructed to separate Communist East and Capitalist West Berlin AND
2)the Year it was built
1)What was the Berlin Wall
2) What was the year1961?
U.S. foreign policy that provided political, military, and economic assistance to countries facing threats of communist expansion
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The 6 founding members of COMECOM
Who were USSR, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Bulgaria, and Hungary?
What occured when the USSR refused to leave its territories in two particular countries in Western Asia.
What was the Iran-Turkey Crisis?
What is Taiwan?
Resulted in removal of Soviet Missiles from Cuba and USA Missiles from Turkey
What the Cuabn Missile Crisis?
The economic plan designed to help Europe recover after WW2
What is the Marshall Plan?
A coalition of socialist states in Eastern Europe aligned with the USSR.
What is the Communist Bloc?
The term coined by Winston Churchill after Stalin refused free elections and installed satellite states
What was the Iron Curtain?
The leader of UN troops during the Korean War
Who was General MacArthur?
The failed invasion of Cuba by the USA in 1961
What was Cochinos Bay (Bay of Pigs)?
The dictators of Spain and Portugal
Who were Franco and Salazar?
COMECON (What does this acronym mean)
What is the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance?
The term used to define international relations after WW2. These years were defined by tensions between the USA and the USSR.
What was the Cold War?
The event where the Western Bloc decided to unite their portions of Germany
What was the London Conference?
The communist guerilla movement that attacked South Vietnam
What was the Vietcong?