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| A time in w hich political tension in which the United States and the Soviet Union competed for world influence without actual armed conflict. |
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| Cold war belief that if one nation became Communist, it's neighbors would follow. |
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| The US policy designed to prevent the spread of communism. |
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| President Harry S. Truman |
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| Containment; Truman Doctrine; Stalin wanted to take over everything. |
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| Roosevelt, Churchill, & Stalin discuss post war events here. |
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| Allies meet - led by Truman. |
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| Term coined by Winston Chruchill for the political barrier isolating Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe from Western Europe. |
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| US has the right to aid other continents threatened by communism. |
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| Response to Marshall Plan |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] |
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| Protecting each other from attack. |
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| Response to NATO, excuse for control of Czech-Hungary. |
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| Security Council, General Assembly, Secretariat. |
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| De-stalinization; reforms; peaceful coexistance. |
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| Berlin Blockade and Airlift |
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| Cut off supplies; done by Soviets [in Berlin] |
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| Blocked W. Berlin from E. Berlin by Stalin [to keep people in] |
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| Mutually Assured Destruction [MAD] |
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| Created/started because of ICBMs. |
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| Khrushchev denounced the cut of personality; to get rid of Stalin and his past beliefs. |
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| Leader of Hungary; detects it's nationality; Soviet asked Hungary |
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| The right for the USSR to intervene if communism is threatened in satellites. |
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| Dictator in Romania; violent & killed a ton. |
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| Country dominated by a nearby power. [Soviets controlled these] |
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| ICBMS, MAD, Summit Meetings |
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| Political and economic policies. |
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| Term for USSR and it's satellites. |
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| George C. Marshall and his plan. |
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| Encouraged free enterprise economies & aid to countries embracing democratic values. |
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| Economic competition without military//physical fighting. |
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| Internation Ballistic Missiles |
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| A person who openly criticizes the policy of his/her government. |
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| SALT, Tension with the West, Meeting w/ Breshnev. |
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| Rebuilt Soviet's industry, boost military strength; executed. |
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| General Secretary of the communist party; De stalinization- strong military and economic policies, [DOMINANT LEADER] |
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| Leader of Yugoslavia; only communist party the US ever worked with. |
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| Communist leader; Eased press censorship; let political groups meet freely. |
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| A temporary alliance of differing political factions. |
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| Formed the first W. German government. [Capitalist economy; close ties to the West] |
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| Policy in which tensions netween West Germany and the Soviet Bloc would try to be reduced/ended. |
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| Spend more $ because the trade has gone down. |
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| Reforms; Gorbachev ws. Yeltsin |
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| Leader of North Korea; had the 5 year plan. |
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| Opens borders; Follows after Kim II Sung |
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| Difference between the money the government controls and spends. |
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| Military industrial complex; Arms industry would force increased weapon spending. |
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| Sent military advisors & approved the overthrow of president Ngo Dinh Diem |
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| Served during the Vietnam Warl President after Kennedy's assasination; Civil rights laws, education reforms, social welfare. |
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| Strong anti communist; Stop war -> bring people together. Vietnamization; Bombing raids in Vietnam. |
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| Mao Zedong takes over- Communist Rule. |
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Invaded Afghanistan; Spending and deaths led to Gorbachev becoming president.
Domestic policies [old ways, glasnost, Perestroika] |
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Five year plan; collective farming
Heavy Industry; military famine |
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Military dictators led until protests.
Democracy.
Strong economic growth. |
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French defeated.
Vietnam split [US supports S.Vietnam]
Elections canceled. |
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| East Germany [German Democratic Republic] |
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Reformers toppled Honneker; Germans vote for unification
New leaders opened travel between East and West Germany. |
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| West Germany [Federak Republic of Germany] |
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Soviets invaded with tanks and troops;
Hungary was revolting against the Soviet's communist party. |
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| Destalinization; reforms took control of Prague [Breznev Doctrine] |
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Confederation under communist party [rotating federal presidency]
TITOISM. |
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Truman Doctrine led to a guerilla war;
USSR tries to control, but the US helps to protect it. |
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Pope John Paul II says religious freedoms in all countries/nations;
Solidarity is formed by workers who are unhappy with conditions [living and working] -> strikes shut down economy.
Industrialized. |
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| ICBMs found -> almost leads to a Nuclear War. |
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| Sputnik was the world's first space satellite. It stunned the US and boosted the prestige of the Soviet Union and it's leader, Khruschev. |
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| A principal stating that the Soviet Union could intervene in communist states to counter any opposition that threatened communism or the unity of the Soviet Bloc. This was the basis of relations between the Soviet Union and E.European satellites for 20 years. |
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| A general who was determined to plant the seeds of future war by imposing an unjust and unworkable system in Japan. He helped japan make a remarkable economic recovery, however. |
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| Ho Chi Minh led the Vietminh and had many ties with communist nations. The US wanted to help it's ally, France, and it aided them through military and financial help. This helped France defeat the Vietminh in which Ho had strongly led. |
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| An electrical worker in Poland who founded and led Solidarity. He led strikes and protests to state his beliefs of better living and working conditions. |
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| A union which communist workers protested/striked in order to improve their living and working conditions. |
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