Cold War 1
This plan gave economic assistance to European countries after WWII.
What is the Marshall plan?
This multinational military organization was created for the purpose of mutual defense and collective security for the western nations.
What is NATO?
The country that was trying to contain communism.
What is the U.S.?
The communist country that U.S. was most afraid of during the Cold War.
What is the USSR or the Soviet Union or Russia?
Hungarian rebels tried to break free from Soviet control in 1956 but they were stopped by this Hungarian communist dictator.
Who is Nikita Krushchev?
Churchill used this phrase to refer to Eastern Europe being under the control of the Soviet Union.
What is the Iron Curtain?
In response to NATO, the Soviet Union created their own international military organization to counter-act what the US and other western nations were doing during the Cold War.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This the unequal treatment of people groups within America.
What is racial discrimination?
This war ended in a stalemate.
What is the Korean War?
Muslim religious warriors in Afghanistan in the 1980s, who fought against the Russian Communists, were called this.
Who were the Mujahedin?
Theory that if one nation falls, its neighbors will fall.
What is Domino Theory?
This event saw the United States and other European nations bring food and supplies to a German city when the Soviets blocked ground transportation to that city.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
A system of legal segregation was institutionalized by these laws in the South.
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
This European country occupied Vietnam for decades and tried to regain control of this country after WWII.
What is France?
This leader of the Solidarity Party in Poland led his country in ending Communism and Soviet Union control.
Who is Lech Walesa?
The fact that the nuclear weapons that were being created by the US and the Soviet Union were extremely powerful and dangerous made the ______ so terrifying.
What is the Arms Race?
This European nation was divided immediately after WWII and was later reunited in 1990.
What is Germany?
Leader who created the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution in China.
Who is Mao Zedong?
South Vietnam was led by this non-communist leader who asked the United States for help in defeating the Communist-run North Vietnam.
Who is Ngo Dihn Diem?
This Soviet Union leader introduced "glasnost" and "perestroika" and reformed the government and economy of the country and helped to end Communism there.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
The Truman Doctrine and the policy of ______established the strategy of keeping communism within its existing borders.
Containment
The competition between nations regarding achievements in the field of new technology, especially the building of space craft and rocket ships?
What is the Space Race?
In the 1970s, China was known as the ______ which refers to the United States' government attempt to improve diplomatic relations with this country.
What is "Wild Card"?
The line between North Korea and South Korea is called ___________. It is also the location of the DMZ (demilitarized zone).
What is the 38th parallel?
This longtime communist dictator of Romania refused to step down and was eventually executed by his own people.
Who is Nicolae Ceasusescu?
Name the German city that was divided into Soviet, American, British and French controlled sections after WWII.
What is Berlin?
His five-year plan was a complete disaster and many people in Eastern Europe started to wonder if Communism would actually work.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
When Communist troops from the northern part of this country attacked the southern part of this country (which was democratic), the US and UN troops intervened.
What is Korea?
The Cambodian Communist guerilla soldiers, led by Pol Pot, were called this.
What is the Khmer Rouge?
This writer and human rights activist helped his country of Czechoslovakia end Communism there once and for all.
Who is Vaclav Havel?