Chapter 15 Flashcards
(31 cards)
Cold War - why was it terrifying
Always close to a nuclear war break out
Cuban Revolution - results
Communists overthrew Cuban government;
Political freedom was restricted
Red scare
American fear of communists invading the US
Marshall Plan
US aid given to European countries
Mao Zedong
Communist leader of China;
Started The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution;
Both plans failed
Who won the Vietnam war
North Vietnam
Mikhail Gorbachev
Soviet dictator;
Initiated reforms on Communism (freedom of speech) (economy reforms)
Lech Walesa
Led Labor movement in Poland and later became president
Warsaw Pact
Military alliance between the Soviet Union and communist East Europe
Purpose of SALT talks and STAR treaty
Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty : limited the number of nuclear weapons a country could hold
Dentente
American and Soviet arms control agreements led to an era of the relaxations of tensions
Suburbanization
The movement to communities outside an urban core
What was NATO
It provided collective security against a threat of attack by the Soviet Union
Japan’s government after WW2
Japan’s new constitution established a parliamentary democracy
American-Chinese relations - why did the US reach out diplomatically
To gain strategic advantage and to isolate the Soviets
Purpose of Mao Zedong’s agricultural communes
To increase Chinese productions
38th parallel
The coordinate points where Korea was divided at after WW2
Affect of Tet Offensive on American people
Made US citizens want the US to pull out of the war
What did Khmer Rouge do in Cambodia
Overthrew Cambodian government;
Committed genocide
Soviet Union In what country did the USSR experience their own “Vietnam”
Afghanistan
Czechoslovakia - why did it split up into two nations
They had separate ethnic groups, languages, cultures, etc.
USSR’s breakup - how did China change after this
Began embracing capitalism
Nuclear disarmament - when in the Cold War did the US and the USSR agree to this
During the last 2 decades of the war
Purpose of European community
To establish free trade in European countries
