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Cold War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cold War | tensions between the US and SU after WWII |
| Espionage | spies |
| potsdam conference | meeting among leaders of US, Britain and SU before end of WWII; agreed on european divide |
| eastern bloc | eastern europe controlled by SU(Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia) |
| marshall plan | financial aid to western Europe after WWII |
| nuremberg trials | trials of the Nazis for crimes against humanity |
| berlin airlift | allies fly food into west berlin |
| NATO | defensive alliance of Western countries against the SU |
| warsaw pact | alliance of eastern european countries and the SU |
| technocrat | government worker trained in a specific field |
| european union | focused of reducing border tensions; one currency, free labor movement, reduction of taxes |
| NAFTA | free trade with Canada and Mexico |
| truman doctorine | US promised military aid to any nation fighting communism |
| red scare | led by McCarthy, politicians attacked citizens for being communists |
| CIA | spy agency |
| containment policy | US policy of containing communism using any means necessary |
| domino theory | when one country falls to communism so will the countries next to it |
| north= communist; south= elections; north attacked south; truce sign; country is still split | korean war |
| DMZ(demilitarized zone) | split Korea into 2 countries |
| brinkmanship | art of moving to the edge of war without going over |
| geneva conference | conference about the after effects of the Vietnam war |
| gulf of tonkin | allowed US president to send troops to vietnam without congress approval |
| tet offensive | turning point for US where we began to lose the vietnam war |
| vietnamization | US idea of slowly leaving and training the vietnamese to take over |
| Ho Chi Mihn | led vietnamese communist party in struggles for liberation against France and US |
| boat people | vietnamese refugees who came to the US |
| feminism | women wanted equal rights |
| destalinization | end to large scale forced labor |
| khrushchev | rejected stalinization for concentration of power and arbitrary dictatorship |
| solidarity | Polish labor movement challenged SU dominated government of Poland |
| arms race, espionage, competition, indirect confrontation, alliances, propaganda | ways the cold war was fought |
| europe split, marshall plan, divided Germany, nuremberg trials, alliances, UN | political changes in europe during cold war |
| truman doctrine, domino theory, containment policy, red scare, CIA, military spendings increased | characteristics of US during cold war |
| 5 year plan and collectivization, heavy industry concentration, science is heavily funded, environmental damage | characteristics of SU during cold war |
| korea split; vietnam became independent and communist | results of indirect confrontations |
| germany is split and US and SU almost go to war because of berlin wall | example of brinkmanship |
| welfare state | country that had adopted socialist programs to decrease the gap between the rich and the poor |
| dien vien phu | last battle between french and vietnamese |
| brain drain | scientists came to US and stayed |
| chernobyl | nuclear power plant that leaked and blew up |
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