Policies & Alliances
An international organization founded in 1945 to further the causes of peace, prosperity, and human rights.
What is the United Nations?
The three notable cases of political conflict in Latin American during the Cold War.
What are Guatemala, Cuba, and Chile?
This was when the United States and United Nations helped push back the communists to the 38th parallel.
What was the Korean War?
actions taken with the intent to destroy an ethnic, racial, or religious group
What is genocide?
A bank founded in 1944 by the United States and 43 other nations in order to provide loans to help countries recover from World War II and develop their economies
What is the World Bank?
By the 1950s, American companies dominated this country's economy. Sugar exports made it one of the richest countries in Latin America, but this wealth was poorly distributed. Most of the people lived in poverty, however, and enjoyed few social or economic benefits.
What is Cuba?
This war originally began as a fight for nationalist liberation against the French in the Indochina War, but soon became a war against the communists and anti-communists.
What was the Vietnam War?
poor nations with little or no industrialization
What are developing countries?
a financial aid plan to assist post-war recovery in Europe in effort to contain communism.
What was the Marshall Plan?
He was the leader of communist Cuba for nearly 50 years. He permitted the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba that led to the Cuban Missile Crisis. He erased class distinctions in Cuban society but also restricted personal freedoms of his people.
Who is Fidel Castro?
During the Vietnam War, it tried to remain neutral to avoid being drawn into the conflict. However, both the United States and North Vietnam violated their sovereignty. This country ultimately fell to communism under the Khmer Rouge.
What is Cambodia?
an extremely powerful nation, one of a very few dominant states in an era when the world is divided politically into these states and their satellites
What is a superpower?
This group, which included the United States, Canada, and Western European nations, was dedicated to mutual defense. Members agreed to treat an attack on one country as an attack on all.
What is NATO? (North American Treaty Organization)
The majority of its people were Mayan Indians who suffered from extreme poverty. Both United Fruit and the U.S. government protested the land takeover under their new government. The U.S. launched a covert regime to remove the president of this country from power.
What is Guatemala?
the communist movement in Cambodia that took power in 1975
What is the Khmer Rouge?
an American foreign policy with the primary goal of containing Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War
What was The Truman Doctrine?
In 1955, the Soviet Union formed its own defense alliance which included the nations of Eastern Europe and opened up trade in the Eastern Bloc.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This country elected a socialist president, Salvador Allende in 1970. Allende nationalized the copper industry in this country. He also took over foreign firms in other key industries. The U.S. ordered a covert operation to bring down the government.
This plan set higher targets for both agriculture and industry. The plan was a disaster. Farming suffered and food production fell sharply. By 1962, around 30 million Chinese had died of starvation—the largest famine in human history.
What was the "Great Leap Forward"?
independent Third World countries that tried to remain neutral in the Cold War struggle between East and West
What are non-aligned countries?