Vocab
a state of conflict between nations that does not involve direct military action but is pursued primarily through economic and political actions, propaganda, acts of espionage or proxy wars
Cold War
a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender
M.A.D Policy
a revolutionary and Soviet political leader who governed the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953
Joseph Stalin
a mutual defense pact aimed at containing possible Soviet aggression against Western Europe.
United States and 11 other nations
NATO
Which country was the aggressor that started the Korean War?
North Korea
was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the reorganization of Germany.
Yalta Conference
wars that stood in for actual conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Korean War, Vietnam War, and a number of other armed conflicts
Proxy Wars
President of the U.S during the Vietnam war
Lyndon B Johnson
the political, military, and ideological barrier created by the Soviet Union after World War II to seal off itself and its allies from open contact with the West and other noncommunist areas
Iron Curtain
Which country did the U.S. send military aid to during the Korean War?
South Korea
an American foreign policy that originated with the primary goal of containing Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War.
Truman Doctrine
a Cold War policy that suggested a communist government in one nation would quickly lead to communist takeovers in neighboring states, each falling like a perfectly aligned row of dominos
Domino Theory
a Cuban revolutionary, lawyer, and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008
Fidel Castro
a collective defense treaty established by the Soviet Union and Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania
Warsaw Pact
What type of race was the US involved in with the USSR in the 1950's?
Arms Race and Space Race
an American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe.
Marshall Plan
A military operation that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany had cut off its supply routes.
Berlin Airlift
communist guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam
Viet Cong
a convenient borderline for their divided military occupation of the Korean peninsula
38th Parallel
What best describes the Soviet satellite Sputnik?
The first satellite in space
an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of the United States, Great Britain and France to travel to their sectors of Berlin
Berlin Blockade
authorized President Lyndon Johnson to “take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression” by the communist government of North Vietnam
Tonkin Resolution
North Korean Leader during the Korean War
Kim II Sung
The dividing line between North Vietnam and South Vietnam as established by the 1954 Geneva Conference.
17th Parallel
What symbolizes the end of the Cold War?
The Soviet Union broke up into 15 independent republics and the Berlin Wall fell down