Cold War Basics
This conflict lasted for 46 years and pitted the West against the East in a battle for ideological supremacy.
What is the Cold War?
In the American political system, power is based on elections and multiple parties. In the Soviet system, power is held by this single group.
What is the Communist Party?
This 1947 doctrine pledged U.S. support to Greece and Turkey to fight off communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This Chinese Communist leader defeated the U.S.-backed Nationalists in 1949.
Who was Mao Zedong?
This kind of conflict has opponents indirectly fighting each other through another country.
What is a proxy war?
Although the U.S. and USSR were allies during this war, tensions quickly emerged afterward.
What is World War II?
This type of economy allows individuals to own the means of production.
What is capitalism?
The Marshall Plan directed this much money to recipient countries to rebuild after WW2.
What is 13 billion USD?
This U.S.-backed leader lost the Chinese Civil War.
Who was Chiang Kai-Shek?
China supported this side of the Korean War.
What is the DPRK?
This metaphor, made famous by Winston Churchill, described the division between communist and democratic Europe.
What is "iron curtain"?
These documents ensure and protect basic rights in the U.S.
What are the Constitution and Bill of Rights?
In response to a Soviet blockade in 1948, the U.S. and Britain launched this nearly year-long effort to supply West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This country was divided along the 38th parallel after WWII.
What is Korea?
This many U.N. troops were sent to aid South Korea.
What is 520,000?
This U.S. diplomat proposed the policy of containment in 1946.
Who was George Kennan?
This country put strict limits on free speech, religion, and press.
What is the Soviet System?
This Soviet leader ordered the Berlin blockade.
Who was Josef Stalin?
This U.S. general was fired by President Truman for advocating war with China.
Who was Douglas MacArthur?
These were the two sides in the Chinese Civil War.
What were the Nationalists and the Communists?
This military alliance was formed by the U.S. and Western European countries in 1949 to counter Soviet aggression.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
What type of equality did the Soviet Union strive to achieve?
Equality of class and economic outcomes
This was the purpose of the Marshall Plan, according to George Marshall’s 1947 speech.
What is to stabilize Europe and prevent the spread of communism by promoting economic recovery?
The Korean War ended with this kind of agreement, rather than a formal peace treaty.
What is a ceasefire?
This was the USSR's foreign policy goal regarding Germany.