AP World History Cold War Flashcards

4345901025	Cold War	the struggle between the communist and democratic nations after World War II. The tension between the U.S. and S.U.	0
4345901027	Potsdam Conference	The final wartime meeting of the leaders of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union was held at Potsdamn, outside Berlin, in July, 1945. Truman, Churchill, and Stalin discussed the future of Europe but their failure to reach meaningful agreements soon led to the onset of the Cold War.	1
4345901028	Eastern Bloc	Nations favorable to the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe during the cold war-particularly Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Rumania, Hungary, and East Germany	2
4345901029	Marshall Plan	a United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952)	3
4345901030	Nuremberg Trials	Series of trials in 1945 conducted by an International Military Tribunal in which former Nazi leaders were charged with crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, and war crimes	4
4345901031	Berlin Aircraft	allies dropped food into West Berlin	5
4345901032	NATO	Organization formed in 1949 as a military alliance of western European and North American states against the Soviet Union and its east European allies.	6
4345901033	Warsaw Pact	An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO	7
4345901035	European Union	an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members	8
4345901036	NAFTA	North American Free Trade Agreement; allows open trade with US, Mexico, and Canada	9
4345901037	Truman Doctrine	President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology	10
4345901039	CIA	Central Intelligence Agency; collects intelligence information and takes part in secret actions against foreign targets	11
4345901040	Containment Policy	The U.S. policy containing communism using any means possible	12
4345901042	Korean War	The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.	13
4345901045	Geneva Conference	Meeting in which Vietnam was split along the 17th parallel line	14
4345901051	New Feminism	New wave of women's rights agitation dating from 1949; emphasized more literal equality that would play down domestic roles and qualities for women; promoted specific reforms and redefinition of what it meant to be female	15
4345901052	destalinization	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	16
4345924355	Great Depression	(1929-39) Deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors.	17
4345939553	IRA	Individual Retirement Account (IRA) that allows individuals to direct pretax income, up to specific annual limits, toward investments that can grow tax-deferred (no capital gains or dividend income is taxed).	18
4345943220	ETA	Estimated time of arrival, in particular the time at which an aircraft or ship is expected to arrive at its destination.	19