Another name for the Berlin Wall
What is the Iron Curtain?
Involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis, approved invasion on Bay of Pigs in Cuba, assassinated in 1963
Who is John F. Kennedy?
The $12.5 billion program that would provide any European country that needed supplies in order to keep the country stable
What is the Marshall Plan?
The 96 mile barrier that divided East Berlin from West Germany and caused many people to die from trying to go over or around it
What is the Berlin Wall?
The place where the Tank Man was filmed, which went against censorship, and documented police terror
What is the Tiananmen Square?
The alliance made by 50 other nations in June, 1945 to protect them from other hostile countries
What is the United Nations?
Russian leader who took power in the Kremlin in March, 1985 and tolerated opposition to the war
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
The period of improvement where different ideas flourished, when Alexander Dubcek was in control, and censorship was loosened
What is the Prague Spring?
The announcement in 1985 by Gorbachev, which means openness and inspired the people to recommend ways to better the society
What is glasnost?
The dissolving the remnants of Stalin's rule
What is destalinization?
The readiness to go to the edge of war with the Soviet Union in 1953
What is brinkmanship?
The person who allied with Joseph Stalin with communism and thought the criticism of Stalin from Nikita Khrushchev was inappropriate
Who is Mao Zedong?
The alliance that was formed between the Soviet Union and 7 other countries, in 1955 after the NATO was created
What is the Warsaw Pact?
The union that workers went on strike in order to demand recognition in 1980
What is solidarity?
The favoring of countries that did not accept communism by President Truman
What is Truman Doctrine?
The three goals of this meeting were to: encourage peace throughout the world, aid countries in desperate situations, and also help create temporary forms of government that was decided by the people's beliefs
What is the Yalta Conference?
Acted on impulse and loved a fight. Wanted the Soviet Union to have democracy step by step, and believed that socialism was like paradise on Earth.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
The meetings between Nixon and Brezhnev that would result in a treaty of a 5 year limit to the amount of missiles and arms that a country could have
What is SALT?
The change in the Soviet economy by creating a more efficient and productive system in 1986
What is perestroika?
A technology that could be used to explore space and also regulate space, an example of this is the Soviet made Sputnik
What is satellites?
The joining of approximately 10 Western European nations in 1949
What is NATO?
"socialism with a human face" and wanted to give the people more freedom
Who is Alexander Dubcek?
Rules that eased the conflict of the Cold War, replaced Brinkmanship, and came to be known as "real politics"
What is detente?
The invasion of tanks and armored vehicles on August 18, 1991 when the State Committee thought that they could make the citizens obey
What is the August Coup?
The 4 goals that Mao stood by and that encouraged improvements in agriculture, industry, defense, and science/technology
What is the Four Modernizations?