Vocab
M.A.D
Mutually Assured Destruction: idea that if one country starts a nuclear war, the other will retaliate and both countries will be destroyed
Cause: Communists win Chinese Civil War
Effect: Guomindang set up government in Taiwan
"It must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting Communist takeovers by armed minorities or outside pressures."
What document was the excerpt above most likely from?
Truman Doctrine
Alexander Dubcek’s relaxation of some communist policies in Czechoslovakia in 1968 is known as
Prague Spring
Which world leader said the following in a post-WW2 speech?
"an Iron Curtain has descended across the continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia-- all these famous cities... lie in what I might call the Soviet Sphere, and all are subject... to Soviet influence"
Winston Churchill
N.A.T.O
North Atlantic Treaty Organization: Cold war defense alliance composed of democractic countries
Cause: Berlin Wall tore down
Effect: German unification
The purpose of the Berlin Blockade was to:
Make all of Berlin communist
The clash of interests after World War II that led to the Cold War came about because while the US was concerned with rebuilding Europe, the Soviet Union was concerned with
security
The Korean War and the Vietnam War differed in that:
containment was successful in Korea, but ultimately failed in Vietnam.
Warsaw Pact
Cold War defense alliance composed of Soviet Union and its satellite nations
Cause: Gorbachev resigned in 1991
Effect: Soviet Union ceased to exist and Cold War ended.
What event led to the creation of the People’s Republic of China in 1949?
Communists defeated the nationalist Guomindang.
Which political and economic reforms contributed to the decline of Soviet communism in the 1980s?
glasnost and perestroika
As a result of Gorbachev’s reforms in the late 1980s,
communism declined and fell in the Soviet Union and in Eastern Europe.
Détente
relaxation of Cold War Tensions during the 70's
Cause: Cuban Missile Crisis
Effect: US removed nuclear weapons in Turkey
How did Gorbachev’s policies affect Soviet satellites?
Poland held democratic elections and Germany was re-unified.
Which event occurred as a direct response to a 1989 Chinese student protest requesting political reforms?
Tiananmen Square Massacre
What 1962 issue served as an example of brinkmanship between United States & the USSR?
Cuban Missile Crisis
brinkmanship
willingness to go to brink of nuclear war to get the other side to back down
Cause: formation of Solidarity
Effect: decline of communism in Poland
Which Chinese communist leader was responsible for the Four Modernizations, a set of practical reforms implemented in the 1980s?
*Daily Double*
Deng Xiaopeng
Which World War II conference could be said to be a source of the tension during the Cold War, in that its provisions were not fully carried out?
Yalta Conference
Which of the following DID NOT serve as a Soviet premiers (successor to Stalin) during the Cold War?
a. Lenin
b. Brezhnev
c. Gorbachev
d. Khrushchev
Lenin