Trumans promise to help any country threatened by Communism
100
How is mass media used?
Propaganda, advertising, art, entertainment, news
100
During what event did JFK try to overthrow (unsuccessfully) Fidel Castro
Bay of Pigs
200
What is Detente
Brezhnev's policy of relaxing tensions between the US and USSR
200
How did the term 3rd World Nation first develop?
Newly Independent Countries or countries with new governments tried to find a 3rd way that didn't cave to US or Soviet influence
200
What policy did many leaders of "3rd World Nations" want to implement upon independence that seemed like a political or economic threat to the US?
Nationalization of land/natural resources
300
What was the Brezhnev Doctrine and what was it in reaction to?
A policy to allow USSR's intervention in a satellite nation when communism is threatened. It was used to defend soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia during the Prague Spring.
300
What is an example of Bi-Polar Equilibrium?
the Cold War
300
In what country did the US back Contra Rebels against the Sandinistas?
Nicaragua
400
What was Lech Walesa's role in helping end the Cold War
He led a Union and Political group known as Solidarity to fight Communist challenge Communist leadership in Poland
400
What kind of role did "3rd World Nations" play during the Cold War?
They were battlegrounds for both the US and the Soviet Union to try and spread their political and economic ideologies
400
What was the goal of NAFTA?
To create a free trade zone between Canada, Mexico, and the US
500
In general, how was the Cold War fought?
in many small to medium scale conflict in politically unstable countries killing about 50 million people in total
500
Describe the Communist Revolution
Communist appealed to radicalism and frustration about the Provisional Governments failures during WWI to stage a successful inssurection/coup of the Provisional Government
500
What is the Iran Contra Affair?
The US supplied money to Contra rebels in Nicaragua illegally by selling weapons to Iran