Cold War Final Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| What is the 20th Century described as? | The american century, beacause since 1945 america has been the military, econmic, and political power of the world. |
| What was the monroe docturine? | Document saying that the US would not welcome any outside interference in the western hemishpere in 1823. Basically we would stay isolated. |
| Who did the U.S become involved with in the late 1800's. | The Confederate Army or "The South" for a long time the us focused on rebuilding this nation in rambels. |
| What was the difference between Woodrow Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt? | Roosevelt was more of an realist and Wilson was more of a idealist. |
| What is the iorn curtin? | the imaginary line that divided east and west europe. |
| What was the cuban missile crisis? | when the ussr was found putting missiles in cuba that could reach america. and embargo was placed and no viloence broke, today the embargo is still in place |
| NATO | *North Atlantic Treaty Organization *Greece and Turkey joined *Created to keep peace in Europe *West Germany |
| Warsaw Pact | *The USSR's response to NATO, which tied the Balkan states together. |
| Truman Doctrine | *Set of principals that were created for US foreign policy and created containment *Gave aid to Greece and Turkey |
| Marshall Plan | *Was part of the Truman Doctrine. *Gave aid to Western Europe after WWII. |
| George Kennan | *The father of containment *Helped Truman with his Doctrine *Wrote about how to diplomatically handle USSR. |
| "X" | George Kennan |
| Domino Theory | When one country falls to communism so will the rest around it. |
| Peristroika | To rebuild and reform ones politics and economy. |
| Glasnost | When freedom of information happened in Russia by Gorbachev |
| Vietnam Syndrome | Americas unpopular response to the Vietnam war. |
| Realism | The US should be guided by our interests |
| Idealism | The US should be guided by our Foreign Policy |
| Isolationism | Lack of interest in the outside world |
| Internationalism | Multilateral or unilateral |
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