Cold War Unit Flashcards
(15 cards)
Who was in conflict with each other during the Cold War?
U.S.A. and U.S.S.R.
What was the U.S.’s main purpose for fighting the Cold War
Containment of Communism
What was the Yalta Conference?
A meeting between 3 Allies of WW2 to discuss Europe’s postwar reorganization
Potsdam Agreement
Agreement between 3 of the Allies of WW2 for the military occupation and reconstruction of Germany
Eastern Bloc or Satellite Nations
The extension of Soviet control
Iron Curtain
A metaphor that separated Anti-Communist (Western Europe) from Communist (Eastern Europe)
Truman Doctrine
A speech that stated that the U.S. would provide political, military, and economic assistance to all nations under threat from Communist forces.
This was inspired by Containment*
Berlin Blockade
An attempt by the U.S.S.R. to limit France, Great Britain, and the U.S. to travel to their own parts of Berlin
NATO- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
the purpose was to protect one another if any one of them were ever attacked
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuba was secretly building bases to install Soviet missiles with nuclear warheads
U.S. responds with a blockade and threatened to invade if the missiles were not removed
Khrushchev agrees to remove missiles
Brinkmanship
going to the edge of the war
closest the U.S. and U.S.S.R. actually got to fighting
Vietnam
North Vietnam (Communist) versus South Vietnam (Anti-Communist). The South surrenders to the North. Vietnam unifies as Communist
Warsaw Pact
the U.S.S.R. used this so that they could keep an eye on their Satellite nations
SALT 1 and SALT 2
Limited nuclear proliferation (reducing the amount of nuclear weapons)
Gorbachev’s policies of Perestroika and Glasnost
Gorbachev wanted to keep Communism but also add some changes to it. Some of these changes were from democratic governments and capitalist governments
