Chapter 6 Flashcards
(28 cards)
A competition between USA and USSR over stock piling nuclear weapons
The nuclear arms race
Font to stop north Vietnam for room taking over South Vietnam
The Vietnam war
The first tsar are known for his cruelty
Ivan the Terrible
Wanted to modernize Russia
Peter the Great and Catherine the great
The first tsar who freed the serfs
Alexander the third
The last tsar of Russia
Nicholas the second
Ended Russia’s monarchy
The Russian revolution
The two causes for the Russian revolution were
Food shortages and Russian losses in World War I
In a communist state
Communist party is only party and few people belong to party
In a communist state to the government controlled economy
Government owns knit natural resources and industries and government planners decide
In a communist state there is
Little personal freedom
The leader of the communist during the Russian Revolution and the first leader of the USSR
Lennon
was built to keep people living in East Berlin from escaping to West Berlin
The Berlin Wall
The last leader of the ussr
Gorbachen
Are union of 15 republics under communist rule
US SR
The cruel dictator of the USSR during World War II
Stahelin
A man-made Fannin that killed millions
The holodomor
During the great purge Stalin
Eliminated real and perceived threats
Forced labor camps
Gulagsvere
A struggle between democracies and communist countries after world war two
The Cold War
Were communist countries in Eastern Europe under Soviet control or influence
Soviet satellites
Was an alliance that included USA
NATO or north Atlantic Treaty organization
Airplanes flew supplies into West Berlin during a Soviet blockade
Berlin airlift
Was fought between North and South Korea and their allies
The Korean War
