Civil War Facts Flashcards
(20 cards)
Iran
Uk and USSR still have troops on the ground, USSR refuses to leave
Turkey
stalin courts country with control of bosporus and dardanelles
Greece
Communist insurgents start civil war, stalin refrains from assisting
Marshal Plan
Economic assistance to post war Europe, stave of communis approachment
Nato 1949
military alliance planned to protect against attack within Europe and established East and West Germany
NSC - 68
Truman foreign policy that focused on building military superiority and protecting the western hemisphere.
Communist victory in china
agreement of friendship with stalin in 1950
Khrushchev
destalinization and coexistence
Warsaw Pact
response to nato, mutual defense treaty for soviet and satellite states
Poland
1956, Breaks free from soviet control and gains independence.
Hungary
Follows poland’s example, but does not have global stage and is crushed violently
Brinkmanship
U.S spy plane is shot down coexistence turns into confrontation
Cuban revolution
Fidel Castro takes power and forges relationship with USSR on path to socialism
Prague Spring
Czechoslovakia institutes reforms opening up personal freedoms. Their is a resulting disulisment
Sino-soviet split
Soviet influence purged in cultural revolution, 1964
Lazer guided weapon in space
Front by the U.S that forces Soviet Union to increase military spending
Martial Law in Poland
1000s protest against Communist government,
Gorbachev’s reforms
improve standing of living and cut costs
Perestroika
restructure, decentralize power, and new market economy. Also elected leaders
Coup in 1991
dissolution of soviet union
