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Cold War Test
People, Places, & Terms to know.
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History
9th Grade
04/04/2007

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Term
Cold War
Definition
A time in w hich political tension in which the United States and the Soviet Union competed for world influence without actual armed conflict.
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Domino Theory
Definition
Cold war belief that if one nation became Communist, it's neighbors would follow.
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Containment
Definition
The US policy designed to prevent the spread of communism.
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President Harry S. Truman
Definition
Containment; Truman Doctrine; Stalin wanted to take over everything.
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Yalta
Definition
Roosevelt, Churchill, & Stalin discuss post war events here.
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Potsdam
Definition
Allies meet - led by Truman.
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Iron Curtain
Definition
Term coined by Winston Chruchill for the political barrier isolating Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe from Western Europe.
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Truman Doctrine
Definition
US has the right to aid other continents threatened by communism.
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COMECON
Definition
Response to Marshall Plan
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]
Definition
Protecting each other from attack.
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Warsaw Pact
Definition
Response to NATO, excuse for control of Czech-Hungary.
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United Nations
Definition
Security Council, General Assembly, Secretariat.
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Nikita Khrushchev
Definition
De-stalinization; reforms; peaceful coexistance.
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Berlin Blockade and Airlift
Definition
Cut off supplies; done by Soviets [in Berlin]
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Berlin Wall
Definition
Blocked W. Berlin from E. Berlin by Stalin [to keep people in]
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Mutually Assured Destruction [MAD]
Definition
Created/started because of ICBMs.
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De-Stalinization
Definition
Khrushchev denounced the cut of personality; to get rid of Stalin and his past beliefs.
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Imre Nagy
Definition
Leader of Hungary; detects it's nationality; Soviet asked Hungary
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Brezhnev Doctrine
Definition
The right for the USSR to intervene if communism is threatened in satellites.
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Ceausescu
Definition
Dictator in Romania; violent & killed a ton.
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Superpower
Definition
The US & Soviet Union
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Satellite
Definition
Country dominated by a nearby power. [Soviets controlled these]
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Arms Race
Definition
ICBMS, MAD, Summit Meetings
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Ideology
Definition
Political and economic policies.
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Soviet Bloc
Definition
Term for USSR and it's satellites.
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George C. Marshall and his plan.
Definition
Encouraged free enterprise economies & aid to countries embracing democratic values.
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Peaceful Coexistence
Definition
Economic competition without military//physical fighting.
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ICBM
Definition
Internation Ballistic Missiles
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Dissident
Definition
A person who openly criticizes the policy of his/her government.
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Detente
Definition
SALT, Tension with the West, Meeting w/ Breshnev.
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Joseph Stalin
Definition
Rebuilt Soviet's industry, boost military strength; executed.
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Leonid Breznev
Definition
General Secretary of the communist party; De stalinization- strong military and economic policies, [DOMINANT LEADER]
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Josip Tito
Definition
Leader of Yugoslavia; only communist party the US ever worked with.
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Alexander Dubchek
Definition
Communist leader; Eased press censorship; let political groups meet freely.
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Coalition
Definition
A temporary alliance of differing political factions.
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Konrad Adenauer
Definition
Formed the first W. German government. [Capitalist economy; close ties to the West]
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Ostpolitik
Definition
Policy in which tensions netween West Germany and the Soviet Bloc would try to be reduced/ended.
Term
Trade Deficit
Definition
Spend more $ because the trade has gone down.
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Gorbachev
Definition
Reforms; Gorbachev ws. Yeltsin
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Kim II Sung
Definition
Leader of North Korea; had the 5 year plan.
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Kim Jong II
Definition
Opens borders; Follows after Kim II Sung
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Budget Deficit
Definition
Difference between the money the government controls and spends.
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Dwight Eisenhower
Definition
Military industrial complex; Arms industry would force increased weapon spending.
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John F. Kennedy
Definition
Sent military advisors & approved the overthrow of president Ngo Dinh Diem
Term
Lyndon B. Johnson
Definition
Served during the Vietnam Warl President after Kennedy's assasination; Civil rights laws, education reforms, social welfare.
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Richard M. Nixon
Definition
Strong anti communist; Stop war -> bring people together. Vietnamization; Bombing raids in Vietnam.
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China
Definition
Mao Zedong takes over- Communist Rule.
Term
USSR
Definition
Invaded Afghanistan; Spending and deaths led to Gorbachev becoming president.

Domestic policies [old ways, glasnost, Perestroika]
Term
North Korea
Definition
Five year plan; collective farming

Heavy Industry; military famine
Term
South Korea
Definition
Military dictators led until protests.

Democracy.

Strong economic growth.
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Vietnam
Definition
French defeated.

Vietnam split [US supports S.Vietnam]

Elections canceled.
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East Germany [German Democratic Republic]
Definition
Reformers toppled Honneker; Germans vote for unification

New leaders opened travel between East and West Germany.
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West Germany [Federak Republic of Germany]
Definition
Republic; Allies.
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Hungary
Definition
Soviets invaded with tanks and troops;

Hungary was revolting against the Soviet's communist party.
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Czechoslovakia
Definition
Destalinization; reforms took control of Prague [Breznev Doctrine]
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Yugoslavia
Definition
Confederation under communist party [rotating federal presidency]

TITOISM.
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Greece
Definition
Truman Doctrine led to a guerilla war;

USSR tries to control, but the US helps to protect it.
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Poland
Definition
Pope John Paul II says religious freedoms in all countries/nations;

Solidarity is formed by workers who are unhappy with conditions [living and working] -> strikes shut down economy.

Industrialized.
Term
Cuba
Definition
ICBMs found -> almost leads to a Nuclear War.
Term
Sputnik
Definition
Sputnik was the world's first space satellite. It stunned the US and boosted the prestige of the Soviet Union and it's leader, Khruschev.
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Breznev Doctrine
Definition
A principal stating that the Soviet Union could intervene in communist states to counter any opposition that threatened communism or the unity of the Soviet Bloc. This was the basis of relations between the Soviet Union and E.European satellites for 20 years.
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Douglas Macarthur
Definition
A general who was determined to plant the seeds of future war by imposing an unjust and unworkable system in Japan. He helped japan make a remarkable economic recovery, however.
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Ho Chi Minh
Definition
Ho Chi Minh led the Vietminh and had many ties with communist nations. The US wanted to help it's ally, France, and it aided them through military and financial help. This helped France defeat the Vietminh in which Ho had strongly led.
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Lech Walesa
Definition
An electrical worker in Poland who founded and led Solidarity. He led strikes and protests to state his beliefs of better living and working conditions.
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Solidarity
Definition
A union which communist workers protested/striked in order to improve their living and working conditions.
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