Breakdown of the Grand Alliance
This 1945 conference, attended by the "Big Three," saw disagreements over the future of Poland and the division of Germany into four zones.
What is the Yalta Conference?
This U.S. policy, announced in 1947 regarding Greece and Turkey, stated the U.S. would support "free peoples" resisting subjugation.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
In 1972, this U.S. President made a historic visit to Beijing, effectively ending decades of diplomatic isolation between the two nations.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This Gorbachev policy, meaning "openness," encouraged social and political transparency in the Soviet Union.
What is Glasnost?
This dean of Cold War historians is a professor at Yale University.
John Lewis Gaddis
Who sent an 8,000-word document to Truman that argued that the USSR was inherently expansionist and necessitated a policy of "containment."
Who is George Kennan?
Promoted by Nikita Khrushchev after 1956, this policy argued that Capitalism and Communism could compete without resorting to nuclear war.
What is Peaceful Coexistence?
This 1950 agreement between Mao and Stalin provided China with economic and military aid but later became a source of tension.
What is the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Assistance?
This non-communist labor union, led by Lech Wałęsa in Poland, became a central force in the collapse of the Eastern Bloc.
What is Solidarity?
Following the "Prague Spring" in 1968, this leader was ousted after his attempt to create "Socialism with a human face" was crushed by Warsaw Pact tanks.
Who is Alexander Dubček?
Proposed in 1947, the Marshall Plan aimed to rebuild Western Europe and prevent the spread of Communism through massive financial aid. What wasthe official name of the Marshall Plan?
What is the European Recovery Program?
This leader of Hungary met an untimely death after the 1956 uprising.
Who is Imre Nagy?
This metaphorical "Diplomacy" involved an exchange of sports teams in 1971, signaling a thaw in Sino-American relations.
What is Ping-Pong Diplomacy?
Reagan’s 1983 defense initiative, nicknamed "Star Wars," aimed to create a space-based shield against nuclear missiles.
What is SDI?
This "hot" companero of Fidel Castro met an untimely death in the early days of the Cuban regime. Some suspect foul play.
Who is Camilo Cienfuegos?
In response to the introduction of the Deutsche Mark in West Berlin, Stalin implemented the Berlin Blockade of 1948–49. Which American general oversaw the airlift.
Who is General Lucius Clay?
Signed in 1975, these "baskets" of agreements recognized post-WWII borders in Europe while demanding respect for human rights.
What are the Helsinki Accords?
This 1969 border conflict over a small island on the Ussuri River brought the USSR and PRC to the brink of nuclear war.
What is the Zhenbao (Damansky) Island incident?
In 1989, Gorbachev signaled the end of Soviet interference in Eastern Europe by abandoning the Brezhnev Doctrine for this "musical" policy.
What is the Sinatra Doctrine?
Who was the Soviet boxer defeated by Rocky Balboa in an event that precipitated the end of the Cold War?
Who is Ivan Drago?
This 1948 coup, involving the suspicious death of Jan Masaryk, finalized the Communist takeover of this, last remaining democracy in Eastern Europe.
What is Czechoslovakia?
This 1968 Soviet doctrine asserted that the USSR had the right to intervene in any Eastern Bloc nation where socialism was under threat.
What is the Brezhnev Doctrine?
This 1956 crisis in the Middle East saw the US and USSR briefly on the same side, both pressuring Britain and France to withdraw from Egypt.
What is the Suez Crisis?
This 1987 treaty was the first to actually reduce nuclear arsenals rather than just limiting their growth, specifically targeting land-based mid-range missiles.
What is the INF (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty?
This nation, supported by Cuban troops and Soviet aid, fought against US-backed forces in one of the most complex proxy wars of the 1970s.
What is Angola?