Chapter 24 Flashcards
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Containment
Containment is a geopolitical strategy to stop the expansion of an enemy.
Cold War
a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare, in particular.
Truman Doctrine
the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection.
Marshal Plan
Marshall Plan definition. A program by which the United States gave large amounts of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after the devastation of World War II.
Nato
NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is a military alliance of European and North American democracies founded after World War II to strengthen international ties between member states—especially the United States and Europe—and to serve as a counter-balance to the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact.
Warsaw Pact
Warsaw Pact definition. A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. Organized in 1955 in answer to NATO, the Warsaw Pact included Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union.
Cuneiform
denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets.
Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall definition. Fortified concrete and wire barrier that separated East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
Khrushchev
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was a politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War.
Mav Zedong
Mao Zedong or Mao Tse-tung, also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary and founding father of the People’s Republic of China, which he governed as the Chairman of the Communist .
Cuban missile crisis
Cuban missile crisis definition. A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba; one of the “hottest” periods of the cold war.
Arms race
a competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons, especially between the US and the former Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Satellite
Satellite Nation. Definition. A satellite state (sometimes referred to as a client state) is a political term that refers to a country that is formally independent, but under heavy influence or control by another country. Term.
Domino theory
the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall.
East germany
East Germany definition. Former nation in north-central Europe, officially known as the German Democratic Republic from 1949 to 1990, when East and West Germany were reunited. Its capital and largest city was East Berlin.
West Germany
West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland or BRD; French: République fédérale d’Allemagne or RFA) in the period between its creation on 23 May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990.
The Peoples republic of China
China is a populous nation in East Asia whose vast landscape encompasses grassland, desert, mountains, lakes, rivers and more than 14,000km of coastline.
The great leap forward
The Great Leap Forward (Chinese: 大跃进; pinyin: Dà yuè jìn) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) was an economic and social campaign by the Communist Party of China (CPC) from 1958 to 1962.
The cultural definition
relating to the ideas, customs, and social behavior of a society.
The gang of four
The Gang of Four (simplified Chinese: 四人帮; traditional Chinese: 四人幫; pinyin: Sìrén bāng) was a political faction composed of four Chinese Communist Party officials.
The reed guards
In 1966, a group of middle school students in Beijing named themselves “Chairman Mao’s Red Guards.” Mao’s support for them led to the name “Red Guard” being adopted by groups who were sanctioned by Mao and his supporters to “rebel against the system” all over China.
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs Museum, also known as the Brigade 2506 Museum and Library is located in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood. It commemorates the men of Brigade 2506 and their efforts in the Bay of Pigs Invasion
Space Race
The Space Race between the Soviet Union and the United States begins. Nov. 3, 1957: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2 with the first living passenger, the dog Laika, aboard. … Jan. 2, 1959: The U.S.S.R. launches Luna 1, which misses the moon but becomes the first artificial object to leave Earth orbit.
The iron curtain
The Iron Curtain was the name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
