Cold War And Modern Era Flashcards

(31 cards)

1
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what agreement at Yalta did Stalin ignore

A

not to install communist government’s

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2
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post damn conference

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permit free elections in Eastern Europe

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3
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Iron Curtain

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vision of Europe east and west, Winston Churchill

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4
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containment

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foreign-policy, blocking Soviet influence and stopping expansion of communism

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5
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Truman doctrine

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trim in support of countries that rejected communism

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6
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Marshall plan

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US give aid to need a European country

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7
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Berlin airlift

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many became one nation, hold Berlin hostage

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8
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nato

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NATO defense of military alliance

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9
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Warsaw Pact

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soviet union military alliance with Germany Czechoslovakia Poland Hungary Romania Bulgaria and I’ll Banya

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10
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h-bomb

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The hydrogen bomb, joint Adams together

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11
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brinkmanship

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The willingness to go to the edge of war

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12
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U2 incident

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soviet shutdown are you to playing and it’s pilot which heightened Cold War tensions

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13
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first world nations

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Dustrial capitalist nation nation’s

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14
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Second world nations

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communist nations

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15
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third World nations

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developing nations

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16
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nonaligned nations

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third force, independent countries

17
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Eastern block

18
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collectivization

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Consolidated private firms and a huge collective farms work in common by farmers

19
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purges

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expulsion or execution of rivals

20
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five-year plans

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concentrated on heavy industry to quickly industrialize

21
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soviet economy

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frequent shortages of goods, emphasis on heavy industrial goods, government control over all economic sectors

22
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sputnik

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first satellite

23
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soviet leader

24
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do you Stalinization

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criticize Stalans dictatorship

25
cuban missile crisis
secretly don't forget to missiles in Cuba
26
Salt
strategic arms limitation talks
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glasnost
allows citizens to discuss government politics and criticize
28
perestroika
economic reform program that permitted some private ownership and control of agricultural and industry
29
fall of communism in Eastern Europe
Poland was a non-Communist government Berlin wall dismantled, Czechoslovakia and a communist government
30
end of Soviet union
US S are dissolved, Communist Party terminated, elected President Boris Euston
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buffer or wall of protection
A strip of countries along the Soviet unions western border