The Cold War Flashcards
(116 cards)
1
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After WWII, The cold war was the name given to the relationship between _____ and _______.
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USA USSR (soviet union)
2
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Dominated internal affairs for how many years? Which ones? (basically how long was the cold war)
A
46
1945-1991
3
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For many what was the most worrying issue ?
A
the growth in weapons of mass destruction
4
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What is the definition of the cold war?
A
War where no battles were actually fought
Struggle for world power
massive arms race
5
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What conference happened in 1945 that discussed the agenda for post war Germany?
A
Yalta conference
6
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Who was involved in the Yalta conference
A
Stalin
Winston Churchill
Franklin Roosevelt
7
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What did they decide to do with Germany at Yalta.
A
it would be split into 4 territories
8
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who occupied the 4 territories in Germany ?
A
British
Soviet Union
France
United States
9
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What did Stalin agree to at the Yalta conference?
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Allow free elections in Eastern Europe
10
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Who was free to concentrate primarily on events in Europe?
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Stalin
11
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What was the meeting at the end of WWII
A
Potsdam
12
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what happened at Potsdam?
A
Winston Churchill and Truman tried to get Stalin to agree to his promise at Yalta but he refuses.
13
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Truman leaves Potsdam convinced that Stalin wants _________.
A
world power
14
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What did Stalin want to do?
A
impose communism on other nations and dominate Europe
15
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What was the Iron Curtain ?
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barrier between communist east and democratic west.
16
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What was america’s policy after WWII ?
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Containment Policy
17
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What did the containment policy do?
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Contain communism where it exists and stop the spread of it
18
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Who made the Containment policy?
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George Kennan
19
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According to Kennan, how did Stalin present the outside world to justify is own blood regime?
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Hostile and menacing
20
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What was made that allowed the U.S. to assist any country whose stability was threatened by communism ?
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Truman Doctrine
21
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In the Truman Doctrine, $400 million was used to assist ________ and ________.
A
Greece and Turkey
22
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What followed the Truman Doctrine?
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Marshal plan
23
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Why did secretary George Marshall believe citizens in war ravaged countries would turn to communism?
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They didn’t want to starve or die
24
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What was made to rebuild and create a strong foundation for all European allies and repel communism
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Marshall plan
25
The economy of every participant state of the Marshall plan had grown past pre-war levels except _______.
Germany
26
Soviets blockaded______ from the West's supplies.(what city)
Berlin
27
What were the soviets trying to do by blockading Berlin?
Reduce the chances of the Allies unifying West Germany
28
What was the result pf the Soviets blockade of Berlin?
The clear division of west and east Germany for many years to come
29
How did the Allies get around the blockade and make Stalin lift the blockade ?
Berlin Airlift
30
First true "battle of the Cold War is over ______.
Korea
31
The Korean conflict was fought from ______ to ______.
1950 to 1953
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Who controlled Korea in 1910?
Japan
33
What did Japan force Korea to do?
disband the army and outlaw culture and language
34
At Yalta Conference, Allies agreed to divide ____ along the _____.
Who controlled the north?
Who controlled the south?
Korea
38th Parallel
Soviets
United States
35
Who was the leader of North Korea?
Kim il Sung
36
Who was the leader of South Korea?
Syngman Rhee
37
Which Korea invade which?
North invaded South
38
North Korea troops used ________ and drove ________.
Soviet made weapons
| Soviet made Tanks
39
Why did North Korean leader Kim il Sung unleash 100,000 well trained and well armed combat troops on the South?
In an attempt to reunite Korea to be one communist country
40
President Truman Believes the invasion of South Korea is a trick. What does he think is the real threat?
Soviet Invasion of western Europe
41
Truman sees Korea's act of aggression and asks the _______ for the use of forces.
United Nations
42
Why didn't the Soviets stop North Korea from invading South Korea?
They didn't think the US would respond
43
What did china say it would do if the United States came close to the Yalu River?
They would respond with a massive military invasion
44
North Korea pushes deep into South Korea into the port city of ________.
Pusan
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What did Lieutenant Carl Bernard mean when he said "That was my first appreciation that we had a serious set of problems"
No matter how much they shot they couldn't defeat the tanks
46
United Nations launches a counteroffensive to the Korean War at _________?
Effect of this?
Inchon
Pushed North Korea out of South Korea
47
Why was Inchon one of the most successful operations in military history?
There was hardly any casualties
48
What was the first hot war of the cold war?
Korea
49
What does Mao Zedong, leader of communist China, believe is the reason the US intervened in Korea?
As a scheme to expand into east Asia
50
What were the orders given to MacArthur as he crosses the 38th Parallel?
Stop at any sign of Russian or china involvement
| Stop well before the Yalu River
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After China joined into the war due to MacArthur's Advance, a _______ developed
Stalemate
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_______ and _______ disagree on how to proceed after china joins.
Truman
| MacArthur
53
Truman fires _________, which is replaced by ________.
MacArthur
| Matthew Ridgeway
54
What was General MacArthur's foreign policy?
no substitute for victory
| war with china
55
What was one reason Truman felt like he needed to fire MacArthur?
His insubordination and he was gonna run for president
56
Fighting in Korea becomes intense and the battles of ________ and _________ happen.
Bloody Ridge
| Heartbreak Ridge
57
Who wins presidency in 1952?
Eisenhower
58
in ____ an ______ was signed to end fighting.
1953
| Armistice
59
Today there is a __________ on the 38th parallel that divides the peninsula.
Guarded Demilitarized Zone
60
Today South Korea prospers _______.
economically
61
Today North Korea is a ________
dictatorship
62
Jfk made his inauguration in what year ?
What did he say in his speech?
1961
Its not what your country can do for you it is what you can do for your country
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What does JFK say is the basis to the preservation of a Democracy?
Education
64
JFK says _________ is responsible for the interests of the people who don’t have resources to have representatives in Washington
The president
65
What did kennedy make that helped underdeveloped nations in education farming health care and construction
Peace corps
66
What controversial problems has the peace corps encountered ?
Women were robbed and sexually assulted
67
What does he mean when he says “The peace corps is one of the few organizations that receives bi partisan support
Repiblicans and democrats support it
68
How was richard nixion welcomed by latin americans in 1958?
He wasnt they wanted him to go away
69
What was the goal of bay of pigs?
Who concieved of the plan ?
It was approved under what condition?
Did it work?
Overthrow fidel castro
The CIA
No american troops involved
No
70
What was when kennedy met with khrushchev for two days of meetings ?
What was the main issue?
Vienna conference
Berlin
71
Jfk informed the world that the _______ was builong secret missile bases in _______.
Soviet union
| Cuba
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What did JFK do in response to cuban missile crisis?
Ordered a naval blockade of cuba
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What was the soviet unions response to the blockade ?
To fire nuclear weapons if the is onvades
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Why was Fidel Castro a growing concern for the US?
He was constantly spreading communism
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What was the official name for the blockade?
Quarantine
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Kennedy praised the character of the german people for their pursuit of _______.
Freedom
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Who was the first president to get involved ?
Eisenhower
78
Who supported the communist laps rebels?
The russians
79
What prohibited atomic testing on the ground atmosphere and water?
What did it not prohibit
Nuclear test ban treaty
Testing underground
80
Who were the initial signers of the nuclear test ban treaty?
United States
United Kingdom
Soviet Union
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Why was JFK goin to moscow?
As a representative of US to sign the nuclear test ban treaty
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What happened three months after the nuclear ban treaty was signed ?
JFK got assassinated
83
Over a ____ year span over _______ american soldiers were sent to fight in Vietnam.
10
| 2 million
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in the 1800s ______ military forces established control in Indochina, which is located in a peninsula in southeast asia with cambodia Laos and Vietnam.
french
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Who would become the leading voice against the french rule in vietnam?
Ho Chi Minh
86
Ho Chi Minh means ?
one who enlightens
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who colonized vietnam and controlled it for over 100 years?
France
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national forces defeated french troops at __________ in the northwest vietnam.
Dien Bien Phu
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What was it called when france and vietnam came together in switzerland to discuss the future?
Geneva Peace Accords
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What was the theory that if vietnam fell to communism its neighbors would follow
Domino Theory
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who believed in the domino theory ?
eisenhower
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Who was the Leader of South Vietnam?
Ngo Dinh Diem
93
What side did us support?
South vietnam
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South Vietnamese leader had restrictive policies on the buddhists which resulted in them _______.
self-ameliorating
95
How was Diem overthrown?
Military coup in South Vietnam after diem ordered attacks on Buddhist pagodas.
96
Turner Joy and the USS ______ was illegibly attacked in the ________.
maddox
| gulf of tonkin
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after gulf of tonkin and maddox congress gave LBJ a ______.
| This was called a ______.
a blank check to do what necessary to protect american intrests in vietnam
Gulf of tonkin resolution
98
President johnson dramatically alters US role in vietnam and orders ________, the first sustained bombing campaign againts north vietnam.
does it work?
operation rolling thunder
| NO
99
Americans used _______ and _______ as weapons.
Napalm
| Agent Orange
100
What was Napalm ?
Jellied gasoline dropped in canisters that explode on impact. clings to everything
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What is Agent Orange ?
An herbicide meant to kill plant life. caused cancer.
102
It was difficult to know who the enemy was in vietnam because _______.
Vietcong used mother nature to their advantage.
103
______ became very unpopular and it was said to be unfair. _______ fought it disproportionately.
Military Draft
| Minorities
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Term used to describe people who supported the vietnam war. pro military
hawks
105
people who opposed the war in vietnam. anti-military
Doves
106
What was the turning point of the war?
Tet Offense
107
What was the achieved goal of the Tet Offense?
getting US to the bargaining table
108
Who won at the Tet Offense?
A military defeat for the communist
| but a psychological victory for the communists
109
Nixon promised an election policy to ______. did this really happen? if no what did?
end the war
no
More deaths in his presidency than anyone else increased air attacks and brought war into laos and cambodia
110
protests against Nixon turn deadly at _____.
kent state university
111
what was made at the end of the war?
Paris Peace Agreement
112
Final draft confirmed to end war in ____.
1973
113
in 1975 North Vietnamese troops capture the presidential palace in ____.
saigon
114
in 1976, Vietnam has a __________.
| country unifies and is now just vietnam.
Unification Election
115
communism still spreads to ________.
indochina
116
vietnam war memorial was made in _____.
1983
