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ASIA AND THEASIA AND THE COLD WARCOLD WAR
USA AND THEUSA AND THECOLD WARCOLD WAR
OTHEROTHERKEY TERMSKEY TERMS
KEY TERMS-100
US policy of trying to stop the spread communism and support the countries that rejected it.
Double points: What is the policy of US providing financial and military aid to
nations in an effort to fight communism.
Containment/Truman Doctrine
KEY TERMS - $200
Alliance that included the US, Canada, Great Britain and other
non-communist European countries
NATO
KEY TERMS - $300
Alliance established by European communist nations in response to
NATO
Warsaw Pact
KEY TERMS- $400
Term used by Winston Churchill to describe the Soviet Union and
its satellite nations
The Iron Curtain
US economic plan to help any European nation that
needed it
KEY TERMS- 500
Marshall Plan
IMPORTANT EVENTS- $100
Conference which took place after WWII in order to divide
Germany between Allied forces
Yalta Conference
IMPORTANT EVENTS- $200
The failure of this invasion of Cuba aimed at overthrowing
Fidel Castro
Invasion of the Bay of Pigs
IMPORTANT EVENTS- $300
Name of the revolution which took place in China and led to the
creation of the Red army & caused chaos
Cultural Revolution
IMPORTANT EVENTS EVENTS- $400
Middle Eastern Country invaded by the Soviets in 1979 to reestablish a communist
governmentAfghanistan
IMPORTANT EVENTS- $500
The U.S. increased spending on education and technology so that they could compete in this race
with the U.S.S.R
Space Race
IMPORTANT PEOPLE-$100
USA president who started the policy of containment
Harry Truman
IMPORTANT PEOPLE-$200
Soviet leader who tried to reform the USSR in the 1980’s, and who
ultimately contributed to its collapse
Mihail Gorbachev
IMPORTANT PEOPLE- $300
USA president who urged Gorbachev to tear down the
Berlin Wall
Ronald Reagan
IMPORTANT PEOPLE- $400
Leader who won the Chinese Civil War and created the
People’s Republic of China
Mao Zedong
IMPORTANT PEOPLE- $500
Iranian leader who led the religious opposition to western
influences in Iran
Ayatollah Khomeini
ASIA AND THE COLD WAR - $100
This is the term used to describe Nixon’s plan to remove U.S.
troops from Vietnam
Vietnamization
ASIA AND THE COLD WAR- $200
Pro- Communist South Vietnamese fighters
Vietcong
ASIA AND THE COLD WAR- $ 300
The idea that if Vietnam became communist the whole continent
would become communist
Domino Theory
ASIA AND THE COLD WAR-$400
This was Mao’s plan to create large collective farms and
improve industry
Great Leap Forward
ASIA AND THE COLD WAR-$500
The U.S. lead a U.N. military force in response to the 1950s
invasion (what country invaded what other country)
North Korea’s invasion of South Korea
COLD WAR BASICS -$100
The U.S. helped overcome a Soviet blockade at this location because it
was behind the iron curtain.
West Berlin
COLD WAR BASICS $200
This Russian leader stated that communism and capitalism could
not exit in the same world.
Stalin
COLD WAR BASICS $300
The election of Mikhail Gorbachev
Communism ended in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary after this person became the leader of the U.S.S.R.
COLD WAR BASICS $400
US President during the Cuban Missile Crisis
John F. Kennedy
COLD WAR BASICS $500
He became the first president of the Russian Federation
Boris Yeltsin
OTHEROTHER - $100
Country created in 1947 for the Jewish people displaced after the
Holocaust
Israel
OTHER- $200
The crisis between USA and The USSR caused by the placement
of Soviet missiles in a Caribbean country
Cuban Missile Crisis
OTHEROTHER - $300
The goal of the Truman Doctrine an containment
To prevent the spread of communism
OTHEROTHER - $400
Stalin’s unfulfilled promise of free elections led to the
breakdown of the alliance between
USA and the Soviet Union
OTHEROTHER - $500
The developing countries not allied with the US or the Soviet
Union
Third World Countries