THE COLD WAR: METHODS
THIS was provided by both superpowers to help Europe rebuild after WWII and to support their allies around the world.
What is ECONOMIC AID?
THIS Cold War strategy first adopted by the United States consisted of stopping the spread of Communism through the use of both economic and military aid.
What was containment?
THESE nations were heavily influenced and/or fell under the direct control of the Soviet Union for a period of almost forty years.
What were the satellite nations?
THIS extended conflict involving THIS nation pitted THIS faction led by Chiang Kai-shek against THIS faction led by Mao Zedong and finally ended in 1949.
What was the Chinese Civil War?
What is China?
Who were the Nationalists?
Who were the Communists?
THIS Soviet and Russian politician served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991.
Who was Mikhail Gorbachev?
Each superpower attempted to create THESE with other countries who shared similar political and economic systems.
What are ALLIANCES?
In 1946, THIS former British Prime Minister gave a speech where he warned that THIS had descended across all of Europe.
Who was Winston Churchill?
What was an Iron Curtain?
When the Soviet Union blockaded THIS German capital city in 1948, the Allies responded with THIS successful relief effort which lasted for well over a year.
What is West Berlin?
What was the Berlin Airlift?
THIS was a disastrous economic and social campaign undertaken by THIS Chinese Communist Party leader from 1958 to 1962, aimed at rapidly industrializing China and collectivizing agriculture.
What was the Great Leap Forward?
Who was Mao Zedong?
THIS mostly economic reform policy allowed parts of the centrally planned economy to be privately owned and operated while THIS mostly political reform policy encouraged greater freedom of expression.
What was perestroika?
What was glasnost?
This involved both direct and indirect intervention in the affairs of foreign countries and included providing military equipment and/or troops.
What are PROXY WARS?
Following the end of WWII, THIS nation and its capital CITY were divided by the allies into THIS many occupation zones.
What is Germany?
What is Berlin?
What are four?
THIS national uprising against THIS government's unpopular policies occurred in 1956 and escalated into a widespread revolt which was ultimately crushed by THIS nation's military.
What was the Hungarian Revolution?
What is Hungary?
What was the Soviet Union?
THIS social and political movement which included THIS famous book of quotes from THIS leader led to widespread chaos, violence, and disruption of social structures, including education and the arts.
What was the Chinese Cultural Revolution?
What is the Little Red Book?
Who was Mao Zedong?
Of five former THESE, these four NATIONS staged successful peaceful political revolutions in the late 1980's while THIS one nation resorted to violence to gain its independence.
What were satellite nations?
What are Poland, Hungary, Germany, Czechoslovakia?
What is Romania?
A strong emphasis on this led to dangerously large nuclear arsenals as well as placing satellites into space while ultimately landing a man on the moon.
What is TECHNOLOGY?
THIS policy undertaken by THIS President of the United States provided $400 million in aid to THESE two countries to assist them in their fight against communist aggression.
What was the Truman Doctrine?
Who was Harry Truman?
What are Turkey and Greece?
In August 1961, THIS nation's capital CITY first became divided by THIS which included barbed wire, guard towers and a lethal area the between barriers known as THIS.
What is Germany?
What is Berlin?
What was the Berlin Wall?
What was the "Death Strip"?
THIS first major armed conflict of the Cold War broke out in 1950, lasting for three long bloody years before ending with THIS in 1953 dividing THIS nation at THIS line on the map.
What was the Korean War?
What is an armistice (cease fire)?
What is Korea?
What is the 38th parallel?
In November of 1989, the fall of THIS was the first step toward reunifying THIS nation and ending the influence of THIS throughout THIS region.
What was the Berlin Wall?
What is Germany?
What is communism?
What is Eastern Europe?
This was created to influence other nations to adopt each sides political and economic system and often took the form of movies, posters and books to shape other's views.
What is PROPAGANDA?
THIS economic recovery plan conceived by THIS former United States general consisted of providing between $12-16 billion aimed at rebuilding THIS region following WWII.
What was the Marshall Plan?
Who was George Marshall?
What is Western Europe?
In January 1968, THIS nation's new LEADER led THIS short-lived period of reform which was eventually suppressed by troops from THIS communist nation.
What is Czechoslovakia?
Who was Alex Dubcek?
What was the Prague Spring?
What was the Soviet Union?
THIS was a long, costly, and divisive ten-year conflict that pitted the communist government of THIS nation along with THESE fierce guerrilla fighters against THIS nation and its principal ally, the United States.
What was the Vietnam War?
What was North Vietnam?
Who were the Viet Cong?
What was South Vietnam?
In late 1991, due in part to a shortage of THIS as well a lack of THIS, THIS nation finally collapsed and THESE eventually became independent nations free from the influence of THIS.
What is food?
What is trade (jobs)?
What was the Soviet Union?
What were Satellite Nations?
What is communism?