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The Cold War
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| cold war | state of tension without armed conflict |
| Uncle Joe | Stalin |
| Americans thoughts on Soviets change | 55% trust rate dropped to 7% |
| Germany occupied by? | France, US, USSR, Britain |
| denazification | removing all traces of nazism |
| German Federal Republic | West Germany, all but Soviet |
| German Democratic Republic | East Germany, Soviet |
| Soviet invaded countries because? excuse | buffer states |
| real reason for Soviet expansion | world domination |
| containment | hold Soviets in current boundaries by political, economic, or military means |
| Marshal Plan | US funded European recovery, avoid another Hitler |
| Soviets worried | unified Germany would attack them |
| 1948 Soviets did... | stop traffic from East to West Germany |
| Berlin Airlift | Truman ordered supplies to be brought to East Germany |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization | NATO, democracy, members help others |
| Warsaw pact | communism, USSR and seven east European nations, members aid others |
| UN | group devoted to world peace |
| Security Council | Britain, France, China, US, USSR, resolve world conflicts |
| General Assembly | all nations, resolve problems brought before it |
| Five year plan | for post war industry USSR, succesful, farm production low |
| Stalin last years | forced-labor camps, anti-Semitism |
| Stalin's successor | Nikita Khrushchev |
| destalinization | labor camps eased/closed, artists given freedom, remained totalitarian state |
| Khrushchev | wanted peaceful coexistence |
| what happened to build tensions? | US spy plane shot down over USSR |
| Yugoslavia | under Marshal Tito, remained neutral |
| Poland | tried to free themselves, workers rioted, led by Wladyslaw Gomulka, accepted, remained ally |
| Hungary | leader Imre Nagy, called for free voting, withdrew from Warsaw pact, rebellion crushed, Nagy executed |
| McCarthy | claimed people were communist, gov officials, eventually censored, ruined lives with trial s |
| sputnik | Soviets first in space, satelite |
| NASA | founded 1958 by Nazi scientists |
| Yuri Gagarin | first man in space |
| John Glenn | Ohionan, first American to orbit |
| Apollo 11 | Americans first to moon |
| Operation Paperclip | Nazi rocket scientists to US |
| MAD | Mutually Assured Destruction Policy |
| SDI | strategic defense initiative, star wars, pushed USSR to end cold war |
| 1949 | USSR tests A-bomb |
| Reagan | great communicator, most aggressive president since Kennedy, evil empire, national debt |
| Kennedy | most aggresive president |
| Castro | revolutionary turned prime minister in 1959 |
| Bay of Pigs | April 1961 attempt to the CIA sponsered Cuban militants to overthrow Castro, failed |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | USSR missilies in Cuba 13 day standoff, edge of nuclear war, remove missiles from Cuba and Turkey |
| Quarentine/blockade | US ships surrond Cuba, nothing in or out, quarentine cause blockade is act of war |
| hasso herschel | former hitler youth, smuggled 1,000 people by tunnle and car |
| Julius and Ethel Rosenburg | americans pass a-bomb plans to soviets |
| miracle on ice | us hockey over USSR 1980 |
| 1972 olympics | ussr defeats USA first ever loss in basketball |
| olympic boycotts | 1980 moscow boycott LA boycott |
| project azorinan | k-129 sub raised by Americans secretly, Howard Hughes, three miles down, soviet secrets |
| charlie wilson | send weapons to Afganistan to fight soviets, billion in aid, from Texas |
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