Cold War Basics
The main reason the U.S. and USSR became rivals after WWII.
distrust between communism and capitalism
After WWII, Germany was divided into this many zones.
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Chinese leader who launched the Great Leap Forward.
Mao Zedong
The first artificial satellite launched by the Soviet Union.
Sputnik
Leader who used nonviolence to help India gain independence.
Mohandas Gandhi
U.S. policy aimed at stopping the spread of communism.
containment
West Berlin was a city located entirely within this country’s territory.
System where farmers were forced to work on shared government-run farms.
collective farms
The idea that if one country falls to communism, others will follow.
The Domino theory
Muslim state created in 1947 after independence from Britain.
Pakistan
A country that is politically and economically controlled by another.
satellite state
The Berlin Wall was built mainly to stop this.
The flow of refugees from East Germany
The Great Leap Forward resulted in widespread this
famine (mass starvation)
A war fought indirectly through other countries instead of direct conflict.
A Proxy War
System of racial segregation in South Africa.
Apartheid
The U.S. program to rebuild Europe after WWII.
The U.S. effort to supply West Berlin during the Soviet blockade.
The Berlin Airlift
Mao exaggerated these numbers to make his policy seem successful.
grain production
The failed U.S. invasion of Cuba.
The Bay of Pigs
South Africa’s first democratically elected Black president.
Nelson Mandela
The military alliance formed by the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
The Warsaw Pact
This geographic situation made West Berlin especially vulnerable during the Cold War because it was completely surrounded by communist territory.
West Berlin being inside East Germany
This plan combined collectivization and rapid industrialization but ultimately failed because unrealistic production demands and poor planning led to economic collapse.
The Great Leap Forward
Crisis in which the U.S. discovered Soviet missiles in Cuba.
The Cuban Missile Crisis
This global organization proposed dividing Palestine into two states in 1947, leading to long-term regional conflict.
United Nations