Cold War Stuffz
military alliance of USA and allies
What year did the Berlin Wall fall?
1989 - Taylor Swift was born
First communist leader of China
Mao chick Mao Mao Zedong
Soviet Union launched this satellite to begin this space race.
Sputnik - why are you spitting on Nick?
Mao went with this US president in 1972.
President Richard Nixon
United States policy attempting to prevent spread of communism
containment policy - show em into a container
First President of Russia
Boris "Boring" Yeltsin
Mao's plan to industrialize China
Great Leap Frog Forward
Soviet Union invaded this country in 1979.
Afghanistan - where they make afghans (grandma blankets)
the Little Red Bookie Book
Soviet military alliance with Eastern European countries
the WarsawPact
Last Premier of Soviet Union
Mikhael Gorbachev - Gorby
Instituted for modernization to reform China's economic after Mao Zedomg's death
Deng Xiaoping
Construction of this by USSR began in 1961 to keep East Germany from fleeing to the democratic west.
The Berlin Wall - it done fall down
USSR tried to force western democracies out of Berlin by doing this.
blockade of surface routes - ha ha! No road for you!
Nation dominated politically and economically by another country.
satellite country - space stuff
Gorbachev's political reforms (free speech)
glasnost
Mao attempted to create a society based on agriculture and physical labor
cultural revolution ( You spin me right round)
USA continued conflict started by French and its former colony in 1959, lasting until 1975.
Vietnam War - Nam
Chinese attempted to limit population
1 child policy = no siblings/spoiled brat
1962 - event that brought USA in USSR closer to nuclear war
The Cubal Missile Crisis
Soviet economics (free markets) reforms
Perestroika - it not a pasta
Pr-democracy protests put down harshly in 1989
Tiananmen Square Massacre - eww
War of Containment fought by USA in 1950-1953, ending in a truce but not a formal peace treaty. Un easy peace threatned today.
Korean War
Gorbachev's Policy of Political Openness. Freedom of Speech.
Glasnost = glass Nawst