Cold War Flashcards

149678384	Charles de Gaulle	French general and statesman who became very popular during World War II as the leader of the Free French forces in exile (1890-1970)	0
149678385	Marshal Tito	Yugoslav statesman who led the resistance to German occupation during World War II and established a communist state after the war (1892-1980)	1
149678386	De-Stalinization	social process of neutralizing the influence of Joseph Stalin by revising his policies and removing monuments dedicated to him and renaming places named in his honor	2
149678387	Imre Nagy	Hungarian Communist Party leader who attempted to end association with the USSR which lead to the 1956 Hungarian revolt.	3
149678388	Prague Spring	was a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union	4
149678389	"Brezhnev Doctrine"	Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene in any socialist country whenever they saw the need.	5
149678390	People's Republic of China	Communist government of mainland China; proclaimed in 1949 following military success of Mao Zedong over forces of Chiang Kai-shek and the Guomindang.	6
149678391	politburo	the chief executive and political committee of the Communist Party	7
149678392	Five-Years Plan	Name of each of the series of programs adopted by China development of the national economy in which levels of agricultural and industrial production were determined and administered by ministries of the central government.	8
149678393	Détente	relaxation of tensions between the United States and its two major Communist rivals, the Soviet Union and China	9
149678394	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	10
149678395	Viet Cong	Communist guerrillas in South Vietnam	11
149678396	Vietnamization	President Richard Nixons strategy for ending U.S involvement in the vietnam war, involving a gradual withdrawl of American troops and replacement of them with South Vietnamese forces	12
149678397	Taliban	a group of fundamentalist Muslims who took control of Afghanistan's government in 1996	13
149678398	Watergate	Nixon's political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice	14
149678399	Gorbachev	Soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms (born in 1931)	15
149678400	uskorenie	Mikhail Gorbachev tried to implement a policy of "acceleration," or	16
149678401	perestroika	a policy initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev that involved restructuring of the social and economic status quo in communist Russia towards a market based economy and society	17
149678402	glasnost	a policy of the Soviet government allowing freer discussion of social problems	18
149678403	KGB	formerly the predominant security police organization of Soviet Russia	19