Cold War Crises Flashcards

(37 cards)

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Khruschev’s Berlin ultimatum

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1958

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Paris Summit

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1960

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Construction of the Berlin Wall

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1961

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Bay of Pigs invasion

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1961

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5
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The Cuban Missile Crisis

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1962

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6
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President Kennedy’s visit to Berlin

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1963

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7
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Hotline set up between Washington and Moscow

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1963

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The Limited Test ban treaty

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1963

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9
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The nuclear non-proliferation Treaty

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1968

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The Prague Spring and Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia

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1968

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11
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Jan Palach sets himself on fire in Prague

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1969

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12
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Nikita Khrushchev

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Leader of UUR from 1953 to 1964

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13
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Dwight Eisenhower

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President of USA from 1953 to 1961

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John F Kennedy

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President of USA from 1961 - 1963

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15
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Lyndon B Jonhson

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President of USA from 1963 to 1968

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Richard Nixon

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President of USA from 1969 to 1974

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Fidel Castro

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Leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2011

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Alexander Dubcek

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Chairman of Slovak communist party

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Leonid Brezhnev

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Leader of USSR from 1964 to 1982

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Containment

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US policy of opposing expansion of Communism into Non - Communist countries

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Sphere of Influence

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Area of the world where one state in dominant

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Warsaw Pact

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A military organisation between the Soviet Union and satellite states

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Brinkmanship

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The tactic of seeming to approach the verge of war in order to persuade one’s opposition to retreat

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Berlin Ultimatum

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Khruschev’s demand for Western Allies to leave Berlin

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Brezhnev's doctrine
Policy justifying intervention for military intervention by Warsaw Pact forces in event of other Warsaw Pact state attempting to leave Soviet sphere or betraying Communism
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CIA
US office coordinating espionage and intelligence activities
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Defect
To leave one's country in order to join a rival state
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Detent
An attempt to reduce tension between the superpowers
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Disarmament
To withdraw, reduce or abolish military weapons and force
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Dissident
Person who disagrees with the government
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Guerilla tactics
Use of ambushes, raids and sabotage by smaller group of combatants against larder military groups
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MAD
Mutually Assured Destruction
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Nuclear non Proliferation Treaty
Agreement that banned the non Nuclear states from gaining nuclear weapons by manufacture or transfer of technology
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Outer Space Treaty
Promise signed up by superpowers not to send nuclear weapons into space
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Limited Test ban Treaty
Ban on testing nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, outer space or underwater
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Prague Spring
Series of reforms by Alexander Dubcek introducing moderate socialism into Czechoslovakia
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Strategic Warheads
Warheads delivered by rockets and missiles that are linked to their delivery vehicle and ready to launch