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Flashcards by Alyssa Megginson, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Alyssa Megginson
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| Question | Answer |
| Satellite Nations | a supposedly independent country that is controlled by a more powerful country. |
| Cold War | the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union involving such tactics as military alliances wars carried out by third parties, espionage threats and propaganda but that avoided direct military action |
| Deterrence | the policy of building up a nation’s military power to discourage attack by another nation |
| Quarantine | forced isolation of a person or group |
| Containment | preventing a hostile country or group of countries from expanding by such means as alliances and military power. |
| George Marshall | The U.S. began an aid program intended to help all of Europe rebuild from the war. It was announced by Secretary of State, George Marshall and called the Marshall Plan |
| Nikita Khrushchev | After Stalin died in 1953 Nikita Khrushchev emerges as the leader of the Soviet Union Khrushchev faced the issue of a steady flow of refugees fleeing to the West from Communist Eastern Europe. |
| Fidel Castro | Cuba had become a Communist country in 1959 headed by Fidel Castro |
| John F Kennedy | President Kennedy demanded that the missiles be dismantled and removed |
| Indira Gandhi | India under the leadership of Indira Gandhi developed a close relationship with the Soviet Union. |
| Chiang Kai-shek | The Nationalists |
| Mao Zedong | The Communists |
| Deng Xiaoping | After Mao’s death China began to move towards stronger economic ties with Western nations under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping Deng helped to introduce private enterprise and foreign investment into the Chinese economy) |
| Harry Truman | President Truman committed US forces under United Nations authority to defend South Korea. |
| Douglas MacArthur | US forces regained the offensive and their commander, General MacArthur wanted to expand the war into Communist China. |
| Ho Chi Minh | At the end of WWII Ho Chi Minh triggered a long war of independence against the French in Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh was a major communist leader. |
| Margaret Thatcher | Margaret Thatcher was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 –She is the only woman to have served in that office |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev recognized the frustration and began reforms |
| Ronald Reagan | Meanwhile, US President Ronald Reagan kept strong military economic and political pressure on the soviets |
| Soviet Union | |
| West Germany | |
| East Germany | |
| NATO Countries | Poland the Czech Republic, and Hungary |
| Warsaw Pact Countries | Albania (until 1968) Bulgaria. Czechoslovakia. East Germany (until 1990) Hungary. Poland. Romania. The Soviet Union. |
| Cuba | |
| China | |
| Taiwan | |
| North Korea | |
| South Korea | |
| North Vietnam and South Vietnam | |
| The Yalta Conference | Wartime conferences of the Allied leaders gave Stalin the go-ahead to retake Russian territory lost in WWII. –The most important of the conferences was at Yalta in 1945 |
| MAD | mutually assured destruction |
| The Marshall Plan | Marshall Plan aided only Western European countries |
| The Berlin Wall | In 1961 Khrushchev ordered a wall constructed between the two halves of the city •The Berlin Wall hindered East Germans fleeing to Western Europe |
| The Cuban Missile Crisis | In 1962 Khrushchev began building nuclear missile sites on the island of Cuba Cuba had become a Communist country in 1959 headed by Fidel Castro •U.S. President Kennedy demanded that the missiles be dismantled and removed –U.S. naval vessels set up a quarantine of Cuba to prevent the Soviets from bringing more weapons to the island. Quarantine: forced isolation of a person or group. •After negotiations, Khrushchev agreed to dismantle the missile sites and remove the missiles Kennedy gained prestige while Khrushchev lost it from this dangerous confrontation. |
| US Allies in Asia | Countries such as South Korea, Taiwan and Israel supported the US |
| Soviet Allies in Asia | Countries such as North Korea, China and Vietnam supported the USSR |
| The Korean War | After WWII, two Korean nations developed, similar to Germany North Korea was an industrial communist nation. South Korea was a rural, non-communist nation. North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950 |
| The 38th Parallel | The division was along the same line that had existed before the conflict |
| Vietnam War | At the end of WWII Ho Chi Minh triggered a long war of independence against the French in Vietnam. |
| Thatcher's policies with the UK | The UK modernized their nuclear weapons under Thatcher for strategic deterrence The British asserted their military power by defeating Argentina in the Falklands War of 1982. |
| The Chernobyl Diaster | In 1986 a nuclear disaster at Chernobyl in Ukraine |
| Glasnost and Perestroika | Glasnost: The policy of openness and transparency in government activities. Perestroika: policies aimed at reconstructing the Soviet political and economic system. |
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