High Policy
Unlike other wars, this was a defensive war
What was nuclear war?
The Soviets retaliated by building this when Germans fled East Germany
What was the Berlin Wall?
China was interested in the Korean War for this reason
What was a shared land border?
This represented the fall of the Soviet Union
What was the fall of the Berlin Wall?
The creation of NASA was in response to this that the Soviets did
What was the launch of Sputnik?
Stalin broke this promise in order to create satellite nations in the Eastern Bloc
What were free elections?
This promised military and economic support to all nations fighting for democracy
What was the Truman Doctrine?
An armistice forced a demilitarized zone to be created during this war
What was the Korean War?
Troops were removed from this part of the world creating room for revolutions to blossom
What was the Eastern Bloc?
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What was Eastern Europe?
This race became bigger than the Cold War
What was the Space Race?
or
What were men on the moon?
The Soviet Union and The US wanted to have influence in various countries around the world
What were spheres of influence?
The US feared that if one nation fell to Communism, they all would quickly fall
What was the Domino Theory?
The Soviets made these promises as a compromise to end the Cuban Missile Crisis
What were dismantling nuclear missiles in exchange for the US not invading Cuba and removing missiles from Turkey?
The Soviet Union restructured its economic and political laws
What was Parastroika?
This race caused the war to be a cold war
What was the arms race?
At these two meetings between the allies, Germany and Berlin were split
What were the Yalta Conference and Potsdam Conference?
The US instituted this form of government while fighting communism and preparing the country for independence
What was a provisional government?
The US and the Soviet Union wanted parts of Africa for these two reasons
What were spheres of influence and staging grounds for nuclear weapons?
The Reykjavik Summit between Reagan and Gorbachev illustrated this about the two countries' relations
What was the ability to communicate about a potential lessening of tensions?
This person was the most important player in the Cold War
Who was Gorbachev?
The relationship between the US president and Stalin changed when what occurred?
What was the death of FDR?
This policy caused many countries to have goodwill toward democracy
What was the Marshall Plan?
The Geneva Peace Accords created this division in Vietnam
What was the 17th parallel?
There was a period of tense peace between the Soviet Union and the US about 20 years prior to the end of the war
What was detente?
This part of the Cold War was considered a hot war
What were proxy wars?