cold war Flashcards
what was the Cold War
a struggle over political differences
security council
11-member BODY
had the power to investigate and settle disputes
5 permanent members
iron curtain
represents Europes division
Truman doctrine
Trumans support for countries who rejected communism
Marshall plan
Money to rebuild Western Europe for countries that were not communistic
The Berlin airlift
The us flew in food when the Soviet Union cut off water and rail traffic into berlins western zones
Cold War? military
Short means of militaristic action or war
NATO
North Atlantic treaty organization
W Europe, Us, Canada
Warsaw Pact
Soviet u
e Germany
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Brinkmanship
Willingness to go to the edge or brink of war
nuclear weapons
Sputnik
Russians built a middle
Glasnost
Glasnost, ( Russian: “openness”) Soviet policy of open discussion of political and social issues. It was instituted by Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980s and began the democratization of the Soviet Union.Apr 8, 2016
perestroika
Perestroika (Russian: перестро́йка; IPA: [pʲɪrʲɪˈstrojkə] ( listen)) was a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s, widely associated with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost (meaning “openness”) policy reform.
Satalite nations
The term satellite nation was first used to describe certain nations in the Cold War. These were nations that were aligned with, but also under the influence and pressure of, the Soviet Union. The satellite nations of the Cold War were Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and East Germany.
Jiang jeshi
S China
nationalist
Us support
lost
