Cold War
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Cold War (1945-1991) | Democracy (U.S) vs. Communism (USSR), nuclear capabilities |
| Yalta Conference | Big 3 (Churchill, Stalin & Roosevelt), Europe post-war, germany = 4 zones |
| Potsdam Conference | Harry Truman, Clement Attlee, Destruction weapons mentioned, marked tension |
| Tension mount | Eastern block = communism/cheka, satellite states |
| Truman Doctrine | Contain communism, free nations vs. totalitarian |
| Iron Curtain | Winston Churchill, famous speech |
| Marshall Plan | U.S = assistance to countries steering clear of communism, department of defense, CIA, national security council |
| Berlin Blockade | June 1948-May 1949, USSR blocks west access/control Berlin -> unsuccessful = embarrassed |
| Why was the Berlin blockade unsuccessful? | U.S and Great Britain flew in tons of food |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1 member attacked all involved, U.S relied on for weaponry |
| Warsaw Pact | 20 years mutual defense agreement, more ground troops than NATO, Soviet Union + communist places |
| Chinese Civil War | Chinese nationalists vs. Chinese communists |
| Who was successful in the Chinese Civil War? | Chinese communists = people republic of China |
| Dictator Mao Zedong (China) | Restore order, eliminate corruption, communism party purges = 1 million killed |
| Korean War (1950-1953) | North invades South, armistice, Korean Demilitarized Zone |
| Who backs who in the Korean war? | U.S = South, USSR & PRC = North |
| Who succeeded the death of Stalin? | Nikita Khruschev (1953-1964) |
| Hungarian Revolt (1956) | Failed -> cheka -> cannot talk about it for 30 years |
| Berlin Wall erected (1961-1989) | "Brain drain" = smart people leaving (5,000 successful), no emigration to west (100-200 killed) |
| Vietnam War (1959-1975) | North vs. South, Vietnamization |
| Who backs who in the Vietnam war? | U.S = South, USSR & PRC = North |
| Detente (1970s) | Nixon & Brezhnew, "peaceful coexistence" |
| Cold war dies down | President Reagan, Mikhail Corbachev, peace? |
| Impacts | USSR back to Russia/severe depression in 1990s, economy slowly improves |
| Still communism today | Laos, China, Vietnam, North Korea and Cuba |
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