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Pd 6 Cold War 25-26
Period 6's Cold War Project Flashcards 2025-2026
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Guerilla Warfare | Irregular and quick paced warfare that relies on surprising the enemy and sabotage |
| Yugoslavia | large communist conglomerate of Balkan nations |
| Athens | Capitol and largest city in Greece |
| Konitsa City | where a large amount of the fighting in the Greek Civil War occurred |
| Markos Vaphiadis | Communist leader in the Greek Civil War |
| Domino Theory | A cold-war belief suggesting that one country being overcome by communism will have its neighbors overcome as well, creating a pattern similar to falling dominoes |
| President Eisenhower | the president that best popularized the domino theory to justify America's interventions in Asia |
| Greece & Turkey | the two nations that the original Domino theory used by President Truman covered, before being expanded upon by Eisenhower |
| Laos & Cambodia | the two countries in southeast Asia that remained communist after the Vietnam War, discrediting the domino theory |
| Chain Reaction | a chain of one force that affects another force of which affects a third force and so on, often in a linear fashion |
| Leonid Toptunov | Senior reactor control chief engineer that was controlling reactor 4 when the explosion occurred |
| RBMK Reactors | Specific type of reactors soviets used during the Cold War |
| Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant | A power plant based in Ukraine |
| Aleksandr Akimov | Chief nuclear engineer that was also controlling reactor 4 during the explosion |
| Anatoly Dyatlov | Deputy nuclear engineer, watched over the 2 chief engineers that were controlling the reactor, told the engineers to go against the rules and raise the reactor to full power after the reactor stalled |
| What is NASA used for | Exploring the solar system |
| How old is NASA | NASA’s 67 years old |
| Who established NASA | President Dwight D Eisenhower and the U |
| What was the biggest tragedy | Space Shuttle Challenger accident in 1986 and the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003 |
| What was NASA called before its name now | National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) |
| Is the hydrogen bomb more powerful than the atomic bomb | Yes, it's much more powerful than the atomic bomb |
| Has a hydrogen bomb ever been used | A hydrogen bomb has never been used during warfare |
| Does the US have a hydrogen bomb | Yes, the United States possesses hydrogen bombs and was the first nation to test one in 1952 |
| Who invented the hydrogen bomb | Edward teller |
| What's more powerful than the hydrogen bomb | Nothing, the hydrogen bomb is the most powerful type of bomb currently built |
| BackChannel Communication | Secret way for leaders to communicate privately and unofficially |
| ExComm | Group of government officials Kennedy selected to advise and formulate a plan for the Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Naval Quarantine | Strategy to restrict/limit the movement of ships in a specific area to prevent the transport of things like goods, weapons, and diseases |
| Quid Pro Quo | Both parties agree to exchange something for something |
| Anatoly Dobrynin | A Soviet ambassador who helped carry messages from Khrushchev to Kennedy’s administration |
| Nash equilibrium | A situation in which both players/people are using a strategy based off of the other persons’ actions/strategy and both can’t improve their outcome just by changing strategy alone, and both don't have the incentive to change the strategy |
| Nuclear Deterrence | Using nuclear weapons to deter others from taking aggressive actions |
| Arms Control Treaty | Global agreement to limit/reduce weapons, mostly nuclear |
| INF Treaty | Agreement in 1987 between USA and Russia to eliminate intermediate-range nuclear weapons from 500-5500 kilometers |
| Presidential Defense Directive 59 | Made in 1980 to be able to fight a prolonged nuclear war rather than full scale retaliation |
| Difference between 2 terms | The difference between Maoism and traditional Marxism–Leninism is that a united front of progressive forces in class society would lead the revolutionary vanguard in pre-industrial societies rather than communist revolutionaries alone |
| Vladimir Lenin | A Russian revolutionary leader, politician, and political theorist |
| Mao Zedong | A Chinese revolutionary, politician, writer, political theorist and the founder of the People's Republic of China |
| Maoism | The communist doctrines of Mao Zedong as formerly practiced in China, having as a central idea permanent revolution and stressing the importance of the peasantry, small-scale industry, and agricultural collectivization |
| Leninism | Vladimir Lenin's adaptation of Marxism, arguing that a small, disciplined group of professional revolutionaries must lead the working class in a violent revolution to overthrow capitalism |
| Brainwashing | Used to sway enemies into what they want them to do |
| POW’s | Prisoners of war |
| Edward Hunter | American journalist who first introduced the term “Brainwashing” in the 1950’s in the Miami news |
| Why did the POW’s stay behind | American officials say they were “brainwashed” by Communists |
| When was the term “Brainwashing” first used | 1950 |
| The Beatles | The Beatles were an English rock band from 1960 |
| Communism | A political theory, leading a society in which all property is publicly owned |
| Kremlin | Seat of the Russian government, serving as the residence for the president |
| Cultural Subversion | Process of undermining the established values or traditions of a society |
| Soviet youth | Generations raised in the USSR |
| Memorandum of Understanding | A non-bindingagreement signed by both countriesthat aims for both countries to work together |
| Hotline | A way of direct communication especially used for emergencies |
| Communication | Verbally exchanging information or ideas between a group of people |
| Nuclear War | military conflict where nuclear weapons are used to cause destruction |
| Government | The people in charge of a nation or country |
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