Flash Cards for the cold war test.
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| 763081955 | Communism | an economic system in which the central government directs all major economic decisions | |
| 763081956 | Bolshevik Revolution | The overthrow of Russia's Provisional Government in the fall of 1917 by Lenin and his Bolshevik forces, made possible by the government's continuing defeat in the war, its failure to bring political reform, and a further decline in the conditions of everyday life. | |
| 763081957 | Joseph Stalin | Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953) | |
| 763081958 | the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | ended Russian participation in World War I | |
| 763081959 | Truman Doctrine | President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology | |
| 763081960 | Containment Policy | established by the Truman administration in 1947 to contain Soviet influence to what it was at the end of World War II. | |
| 763081961 | Domino Theory | the political theory that if one nation comes under Communist control then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control | |
| 763081962 | Marshall Plan | a United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952) | |
| 763081963 | Turkey and Greece | Are satellite nations that are close enough to the Soviet Union that they could bomb the Soviets if the United States were attacked | |
| 763081964 | NATO | an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security | |
| 763081965 | Warsaw Pact | treaty signed in 1945 that formed an alliance of the Eastern European countries behind the Iron Curtain; USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania | |
| 763081966 | United Nations | an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security | |
| 763081967 | Communist China | a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia | |
| 763081968 | Mao Zedong | Chinese communist leader (1893-1976) | |
| 763081969 | Korea | an Asian peninsula (off Manchuria) separating the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan | |
| 763081970 | North Korea | a communist country in the northern half of the Korean Peninsula | |
| 763081971 | South Korea | a republic in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula | |
| 763081972 | 38th Parallel | line of latitude that separated North and South Korea | |
| 763081973 | June 1950 | Korean War Begins | |
| 763081974 | UN Security Council | a body of 5 great powers (which can veto resolutions) and 10 rotating member states, which makes decisions about international peace and security including the dispatch of UN peacekeeping forces | |
| 763081975 | UN Security Force | It was a force to help a nation keep its independence 80% of this force was American troops | |
| 763081976 | General Douglas MacArthur | He was one of the most-known American military leaders of WW2(He liberated the Phillipines and made the Japanese surrender at Tokyo in 1945, also he drove back North Korean invaders during the Korean War) | |
| 763081977 | Eisenhower | Promised during his campaign that he would stop sending troops to Korea but he instead escalated the number of troops | |
| 763081978 | DMZ Zone | "No Man's Land" along the 38th parallel, separates North and South Korea | |
| 763081979 | McCarthy Era | Joseph McCarthy (a senator) started a scare that there were 205 State Department employees who were communist members; got a lot of people in businesses questioned and fired | |
| 763081980 | Ethel and Julius Rosenberg | were American communists who were executed after having been found guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage. The charges were in relation to the passing of information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. Theirs was the first execution of civilians for espionage in United States history | |
| 763081981 | Cuba | a communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba | |
| 763081982 | Alger Hiss | a former State Department official who was accused of being a Communist spy and was convicted of perjury. The case was prosecuted by Richard Nixon. | |
| 763081983 | Fidel Castro | Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927) | |
| 763081984 | Communist Cuba | Fidel Castro | |
| 763081985 | JFK | 35th President of the United States | |
| 763081986 | Cuban Missile Crisis | An international crisis in October 1962, the closest approach to nuclear war at any time between the U.S. and the USSR. When the U.S. discovered Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba, President John F. Kennedy demanded their removal and announced a naval blockade of the island; the Soviet leader Khrushchev acceded to the U.S. demands a week later. | |
| 763081987 | Bay of Pigs Invasion | failed invasion of Cuba in 1961 when a force of 1,200 Cuban exiles, backed by the United States, landed at the Bay of Pigs. | |
| 763081988 | Alliance for Progress | (JFK) 1961,, a program in which the United States tried to help Latin American countries overcome poverty and other problems, money used to aid big business and the military | |
| 763081989 | Peace Corps | (JFK) , volunteers who help third world nations and prevent the spread of communism by getting rid of poverty, Africa, Asia, and Latin America | |
| 763081990 | Organization of American States | Formed in 1948 to promote democracy, economic cooperation, & human rights; Members pledged not to interfere with one another; The US often dominated this organization | |
| 763081991 | Vietnam | a prolonged war (1954-1975) between the communist armies of North Vietnam who were supported by the Chinese and the non-communist armies of South Vietnam who were supported by the United States | |
| 763081992 | South Vietnam | a former country in southeastern Asia that existed from 1954 (after the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu) until 1975 when it was defeated and annexed by North Vietnam | |
| 763081993 | North Vietnam | a former country in southeastern Asia that existed from 1954 (after the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu) until 1975 when South Vietnam collapsed at the end of the Vietnam War | |
| 763081994 | Ho Chi Minh | Vietnamese communist statesman who fought the Japanese in World War II and the French until 1954 and South vietnam until 1975 (1890-1969) | |
| 763081995 | Diem | leader of South Vietnam, 1954-1963; supported by United States, but not by Vietnamese Buddhist majority; assassinated in 1963 | |
| 763081996 | Vietcong | the guerrilla soldiers of the Communist faction in Vietnam, also know as the National Liberation Front | |
| 763081997 | Military Advisers | a noncombat specialist who trains and equips another nations soldiers | |
| 763081998 | Gulf of Tonkin | Incident in 1964 that President Johnson used to justify increased U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Claim was that two U.S. ships had been attacked. | |
| 763081999 | Tet Offensive | 1968; National Liberation Front and North Vietnamese forces launched a huge attack on the Vietnamese New Year (Tet), which was defeated after a month of fighting and many thousands of casualties; major defeat for communism, but Americans reacted sharply, with declining approval of LBJ and more anti-war sentiment | |
| 763082000 | The Age of hippies | This was were young people did not want to go to war into the draft | |
| 763082001 | LBJ | 36th President of the United States | |
| 763082002 | RFK | JFK's brother and a senator from NY; won California primary and was then assassinated | |
| 763082003 | Nixon | Vice President under Eisenhower and 37th President of the United States | |
| 763082004 | End of Vietnam War | 1975 | |
| 763082005 | Détente | the easing of tensions or strained relations (especially between nations) | |
| 763082006 | SALT | negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons | |
| 763082007 | Reagan | 40th President of the United States (1911-) | |
| 763082008 | Star Wars | President Reagan's proposed weapons system to destroy Soviet missiles from space. | |
| 763082009 | Gorbechev | contributed to end of cold war and soviet system with the two principals, perestroika and glasnost. also brought down the berlin wall. | |
| 763082010 | The fall of Communism | USSR loses power for two reasons: U.S. builds arms and USSR cannot keep up; and satellite Communist governments collapse (Poland, Czech., Yugo., Rumania, East Germany). | |
| 763082011 | Soviet Union | a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia | |
| 763082012 | United States | the executive and legislative and judicial branches of the federal government of the United States | |
| 763082013 | Democracy | a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | |
| 763082014 | Cold War | A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years. |
