Programs after WWII
An international organization founded in 1945 to prevent future wars.
The United Nations
the political and ideological barrier erected by the Soviet Union after World War II to seal off itself and its dependent eastern and central European allies from open contact with the West
Iron Curtain
French for "relaxation", signified a time of general coolness during the Cold War
Detente
What 2 events brought about the end of the Cold War?
1. Fall of the Berlin Wall
2. Fall of the Soviet Union
Collection of countries declining to ally with either superpower during the Cold War
Non-Aligned Movement
Organization founded as a collective defense for its members in response to an attack from an external party, aka USSR. The aim of the alliance was to prevent the further infiltration of the USSR in Europe.
NATO
a war fought between groups of smaller countries that each represent the interests of other larger powers, and may have help and support from these larger countries.
Proxy War
NPT (Non-Proliferation Treaty)
a new era of transparency and openness in the Soviet Union, run under Mikhail Gorbachev
Glasnost
2 division of the world based on level of industrial and economic development
1. Global North
2. Global South
A Russian formed alliance with its Eastern bloc countries to counter the growing power of NATO.
Warsaw Pact
The US ideas that 1) Communism must be contained the where it already existed and 2) If one country turned Communist, all countries around it may do the same
1) Containment
2) Domino Theory
Document between the US and USSR recognizing the Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe and both countries affirming human rights
Helsinki Accords
This country had a particularly violent overthrow of Communism
Romania
Correct the categorization
1. Countries not aligned with either superpower
2. Countries aligned with the USA
3. Countries aligned with the Soviet Union
1. aligned w/ USA -> 1st world
2. aligned w/ USSR -> 2nd world
3. unaligned -> 3rd world
A state-sponsored economic plan to restore postwar democracies and to keep communism from spreading by making sure people were not desperate. The US spent 13 billion $ to rebuild postwar Europe.
Marshall Plan
a major confrontation in 1962 that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to nuclear war over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed ballistic missiles in a nearby country
Cuban Missile Crisis
A joint mission to space between the Soviet Union and United States. Signified improving relations between the two countries
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
Program adopted by President Reagan to develop a missile defense system using lasers and space-based missile systems
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI/Star Wars)
System to legal, racial discrimination in South Africa, ended in 1991
Apartheid
Declared immediate economic aid to countries threatened by communist expansion, specifically targeted Turkey and Greece.
Truman Doctrine
The attempted plot to overthrow Castro's regime in Cuba
Bay of Pigs Invasion
US and USSR leaders that handled Detente
USA: Nixon & Ford
USSR: Brezhnev
The split up of this country is considered a "velvet divorce"
Czechoslovakia
the idea that peoples of African descent have common interests and should be unified.
Pan-Africanism