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Pd 3 Cold War 25-26
Period 3's Cold War Project Flashcards 2025-2026
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| When did the cold war happen? | 1945 and 1947 |
| Where did it happen? | On the Korean Peninsula |
| Why was it called the forgotten war? | It was sandwiched in time between World War II and the Vietnam War |
| Which war is known as the forgotten war? | Korea |
| The reason for the Korean war | North Korea invaded South Korea across the 38th parallel |
| Kim Philby | a British intelligence officer working as a double agent for the Soviet Union |
| Donald Maclean | a British diplomat who spied for the Soviet Union in WW2 and early in the Cold War period |
| Guy Burgess | a British diplomat and Soviet double agent, and a member of the Cambridge Five |
| Anthony Blunt | a British art historian who late in his life was revealed to have been a Soviet spy |
| John Cairncross | a British literary scholar, civil servant, and Soviet atomic spy |
| How many countries were involved in the boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics | 60-68 |
| Who led the boycott in Moscow | United States |
| Why did the US start the Olympic Boycott | The Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan |
| What did the Soviets do in response to the 1980 Olympic boycott | The Soviets boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics |
| How many countries were in the 1984 summer Olympic boycott | 13-14 |
| Miracle on Ice | The Hockey game between the Soviets and US in a Semi Final game at Lake Placid, Olympic Winter Games |
| Challenger Cup | A game between the NHL Players and Soviets which the Soviets won |
| Al Michaels | The announcer of The Miracle on Ice, who announced a very memorable saying |
| Lake Placid | A place in New York which held the Olympic Winter Games that contained the Miracle on Ice |
| Mike “Rizzo” Eruzione | Player who scored the game winning goal in the Miracle on Ice |
| Blue jeans Black market | lack of trade that caused people to smuggle jeans |
| East and West Berlin | part of the berlin wall that had been danced on in a way to show freedom |
| Youth group | a group of teens from the East bloc smuggling jeans into the soviet |
| Lack of trade | state of limited resources with zero exchange of goods |
| Non-communist | want to be an individual person not ruled over by one person |
| Hollywood blacklist | list of workers ineligible for work because of communism allegations |
| Hollywood ten | Group of writing directors testifying before the House of Committee on ‘unamerican activities’ |
| Where the blacklist took place | Los Angeles with directors and authors ect |
| How the blacklist originated | Suspicions of communist & congress investigations |
| Waldorf declaration | Studio executives threaten to fire hollywood 10 and unknowingly employ communist |
| What made the secret cities of the Soviet Union happen | were created primarily to facilitate rapid nuclear, military, and scientific development while maintaining absolute secrecy from the West during the Cold War |
| What years were the secret cities going on | 1942 to 1945 |
| How did the cities come about | To support the Soviet nuclear program, defense industry, and scientific research |
| What was the reason behind the secret cities | to hide the soviet union nuclear military and aero research |
| who was president of the soviet union in this time | Stalin |
| How were these cities constructed | prisoner labor from the Gulag system |
| When did the Laotian civil war start and end | 1959–1975 began in May 1959 |
| Who was the leader | Prince Souphanouvong |
| Why did it happen | due to a power vacuum following independence from France, with ideological, political, and armed conflict between communist, royalist, and neutralist factions |
| Who did they fight | the communist Pathet Lao (backed by North Vietnam) and the Royal Lao Government (backed by the United States) |
| What year was the KGB created | 1954 |
| What program did the CIA develop out of | The OSS |
| What does KGB stand for | Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnost (translates to the Committee for State Security) |
| What does CIA stand for | Central Intelligence Agency |
| What does OSS stand for | Office of Strategic Service |
| What year was Salt 1 signed/ established | May 26, 1972 |
| What year was the Salt 2 treaty established | June 18, 1979 |
| What was the importance of Salt 1 and Salt 2 today | Foundation for nuclear arms control |
| What was the importance of Salt 1 and Salt 2 during the Cold War | It prohibited the construction of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) |
| Who was the U | S president during this time |
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