The Cold War Flashcards
(31 cards)
Cold War
A struggle over political differences by short of military action
Yalta Conference
Agreed to divide Germany in four zones
Joseph Stalin
Promised to give Eastern European countries free elections
Iron curtain
Term to represent the division between the Eastern and Western
US foreign policy “containment”
Stopping the spread of communism and spread democracy
Truman Doctrine
Gave military weapons to any country in the world if reject communism
Marshall Plan
Economic assistance program - the only condition: stay away from communism!
Island of democracy
Soviet Union
Brinkmanship
The first major conflict in the Cold War
H-bombs
Hydrogen
A - Bombs
Atomic
Arms Race
Build of nuclear weapons
Space Race
be able to launch weapons from space
Yuri bargain
First man into space
Neil Armstrong
First to step on the moon!
John Glen
First to orbit the earth
Red scare
Fear that the communists had infiltrated spies into the US government
Berlin Wall
Soviet union, to keep the people in
Bay of Pigs invasion (Cuba)
Cuba turned to the Soviet Union for protection
Nikita Knrushchev
Soviet leader of missiles in Cuba
End of the Cold War (2)
1- Fall of the Berlin Wall
2- Fall of the Soviet Union
Ronald Reagan
Us president - played a major role in the collapse of the USSR
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Made by the USA, Canada and Western Europe
Warsaw Pact
Made by the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
