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Cold War Events
flashcards about ALL of the cold war events!
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Yalta Conference | Winston Churchill (GB), Joseph Stalin (USSR), and FDR (US) meet to discuss postwar ideas |
| Potsdam Conference | Winston Churchill (GB), Joseph Stalin (USSR), and Harry Truman (US) meet to discuss what would happen after the war |
| Iron Curtain | Churchill divides Europe in 2 political regions. Democratic Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe |
| Soviet Block | A alliance of countries that agreed with the Soviets. |
| Truman Doctrine | The US promises to join or support any fight against Communists |
| Marshall Plan | American aid that allows Europe to rebuild their economies. Eastern Europe declines |
| NATO | “North Atlantic Treaty Organization” a system of collective defenses where it's members agree to mutual defense in response to an external attack |
| Warsaw Pact | Communist response to NATO. Soviet alliance |
| Struggle over Germany | The US, France, and Great Britain combined their 3 zones of Germany (became Western Germany). The USSR took control of Eastern Germany |
| Berlin Blockade | The Soviet Union blocked the Western allies road and canal access to Berlin |
| Berlin Airlift | America and Britain were airlifting supplies to West Berlin for the war |
| Chinese Civil War | A war between the Chinese nationalist and communists for what kind of government China will be |
| Chinese Revolution | Mao Zedong, Chinese communist leader, declares war on the Republic of China to return power to the communists |
| Korean War | North Korean communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded South Korea. |
| Loyalty Review Board | Created to investigate federal employees and dismiss those not loyal to the US government |
| HUAC | A government body that began investigating communist influence in the movie industry |
| McCarthy's Witch Hunt | Joseph McCarthy, an American senator, who "exposed" communists and not loyal people in the US government. |
| Arms Race | A competition between the Soviet Union and the US to produce more weapons and a larger military |
| Hungarian Uprising | A revolt against the communist government of the Hungarian People's Republic |
| Sputnik | The world's first artificial satellite |
| Bay of Pigs | The US supported a failed attempt to overthrow Castro in April of 1961 |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | US blockades Cuba due to missiles being put up and aimed at the US. The Soviets agree to remove the missiles if the US promises not to invade Cuba. |
| Afghanistan | "The Soviet Union's Vietnam War" The Soviets attempted to eliminate the Soviets civilian support by bombing rural areas |
| Berlin Wall | A guarded concrete barrier that divides Berlin. When the wall was torn down by citizens this marked the end of the Cold War |
| Vietnam War | "Second Indochina War" The North Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong were fighting to reunify Vietnam. |
| Fall of the Soviet Union | The Soviet Union's oil and gas revenue dropped, the USSR began to lose its hold on Eastern Europe. Millikan Gorbachev resigned as leader of the USSR. |
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