Key People
President of the United States who began the containment policy.
Who is Truman?
The failed Bay of Pigs invasion led to the Soviet Union building 42 missile sites in Cuba, which were discovered by a U.S. spy plane.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Established after WWII with the purpose to protect its members against agrssion.
What is the United Nations?
Chinese movement with the goal of establishing a society of peasants and workers where everyone was equal.
What is the Cultural Revolution?
Supported countries that rejected Communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
Soviet leader responsible for destalinization, or purging the country of Stalin's memory.
Also the Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Who is Nikita Khurshchev?
Following the French defeat in 1954, a peace settlement divided this south eastern Asian nation.
What is Vietnam?
Mao Zedong's economic plan which established communes.
What is the "Great Leap Forward"?
Idea that if one Southeastern Asian nation fell to communism, neighboring nations will also fall to communism.
What is the Domino Theory?
American initiative to provide food, machinery, and other materials to rebuild Western Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
Leader of the communist party in North Vietnam.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
Party in China which fought occasional battles against the Japanese and received aid from the United States during WWII.
What was the Chinese Nationalist party?
Represented a divided Europe under western democracy and eastern communism.
What is the Iron Curtain?
President Nixon's strategy for ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
What is Vietnamization?
A policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy agression.
What is brinkmanship?
Iranian religious and political leader of the Islamic revolution. Intended to unify Muslims.
Who is Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini?
Party in China that gained popularity in WWII by mobilizing peasants for war, promoting literacy, and improving food production.
What was the Communist Party of China?
The United State's attempt to limit Soviet influence and stop the spread of communism globally.
What is the containment policy?
The soviet union withdrew missiles from Cuba under the condition that the U.S. would not invade Cuba signifying the end of a major world event.
What is the resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
A policy of reducing Cold War tensions that was adopted by the US during the Nixon era.
What is détente?
US supported leader of Iran who was "pro-west" and allowed foreign oil companies.
Who is Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi?
CIA led operation to have Cuban exiles overthrow the Cuban communist government.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
Soviet attempt to remove the memory of Joseph Stalin from the country.
What is destalinization?
Communist guerrilla fighters in Vietnam.
What is Vietcong?
USA and USSR signed a 5-year agreement to limit the number of intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched missile each nation could have.
What is SALT I?