Cold War Strategies & Conflicts
This U.S. policy aimed to stop the spread of communism around the world.
What is containment?
This Chinese communist leader launched major social and economic reforms after 1949.
Who is Mao Zedong?
This leader used nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience to help India gain independence.
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
This system of legalized racial segregation existed in South Africa until the early 1990s.
What is apartheid?
This 1947 partition created a Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan.
What is the Partition of India?
These conflicts allowed the U.S. and USSR to compete indirectly without fighting each other directly.
What are proxy wars?
Mao reorganized farms into these shared farming communities.
What is collectivation?
India gained independence from this European empire in 1947.
What is Britain?
This genocide during World War I targeted Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.
What is the Armenian Genocide?
After World War II, the U.S. and USSR emerged as these dominant global powers.
What are (global) superpowers?
This 1962 crisis brought the world closest to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This Chinese campaign attempted rapid industrialization but caused widespread famine.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
This process describes colonies gaining independence from European powers after World War II.
What is decolonization?
This 1994 genocide in Africa targeted Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
What is the Rwandan Genocide?
This Soviet reform policy introduced limited market reforms and weakened the communist system
What is Perestroika?
These military alliances divided Europe into Western and Soviet spheres during the Cold War.
What are NATO and the Warsaw Pact?
This war ended in 1975 with a communist victory after years of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia.
What is the Vietnam war?
This South African leader became a symbol of resistance against apartheid after spending decades in prison.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This conflict intensified after the creation of Israel in 1948.
What is the Arab-Israeli conflict?
The Cold War ended largely because of Soviet economic stagnation and the reforms of this Soviet leader.
This Cold War doctrine discouraged direct war because both superpowers could destroy each other with nuclear weapons.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)?
Ho Chi Minh combined this political ideology with Vietnamese nationalism to justify independence from France.
What is communism?
India’s independence is an example of this type of decolonization because power was transferred without a long war.
What is negotiated independence?
This term describes the deliberate destruction of a national, ethnic, or religious group.
What is genocide?
This Cold War policy provided economic and military aid to countries resisting communism and helped expand U.S. influence abroad.
What is the Truman Doctrine?