AP World History- Unit 6 Cold War Flashcards

6217174321	Deng Xiaoping	Chinese leader after Mao who instituted reforms	0
6217174322	Ngo Dinh Diem	Unpopular dictator of South Vietnam that the US supported as opposed to Communism	1
6217176429	Lyndon Johnson	President who believed in the domino theory and inccreased troops in Vietnam	2
6217178007	Ho Chi Minh	North Vietnamese leader who appealed to nationalist feelings to unite Vietnam	3
6217178008	Alexander Dubcek	Leader of the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia who wanted to give more freedom to the people	4
6217180302	Douglas Mac Arthur	US general who led the UN in the Korean War	5
6217180303	Wladyslaw Gomulka	Leader of Poland who stayed loyal to the Soviet Union but pursued different policies	6
6217181898	Imre Nagy	Leader in Hungary who wanted freedom from the Soviet Union	7
6217181899	Nikita Krushchev	Soviet leader after Stalin	8
6217184109	Fidel Castro	Communist Cuban leader	9
6217184110	John F. Kennedy	President who had grave concerns about Cuba	10
6217186493	Ronald Reagan	Sent supplies to Afghans against Soviets	11
6217186494	Mikhail Gorbachev	New leader of Soviets who was more progressive Communist	12
6217188019	United Nations (UN)	Organization that linked the world together to keep peace and solve world problems	13
6217188020	General Assembly	Consists of one vote for each member nation	14
6217190269	Security Council	Acts on major issues; 10 members with 5 permanent: US, France, Britain, Soviet Union, and China	15
6217191946	International Court of Justice	Judicial body set up by the original UN charter	16
6217193846	Council for Mutual Economic Assistance/ COMECON	Soviet plan to help rebuild Eastern Europe	17
6217195650	North Atlantic Treaty Organization/ NATO	Pledged mutual support and cooperation between countries in North America and Europe	18
6217195651	Warsaw Pact/ Communist Bloc	Soviet response to NATO; Communist Eastern Europe and Soviet Union	19
6217199525	Southeast Asia Treaty Organization/ SEATO	Formed between the US, France, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and other Pacific countries	20
6217201116	Central Treaty Organization/ CENTO	Anti-Soviet treaty organization formed between Great Britain and Middle East; US helped although not member	21
6217201117	European Union/ EU		22
6217202871	Nuclear Test Ban Treaty	Said that nukes could only be tested underground	23
6217209442	Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty	Prevent spread of military nuclear technology to non-nuclear countries	24
6217211448	Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty/ SALT	Designed to freeze number of missiles each power could keep	25
6217211449	INF Treaty	Restrictions were placed on intermediate-range nuclear weapons	26
6217211450	Cold War	Hostility between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. that never resulted in direct fighting but instead used indirect fighting over the spread of Communism	27
6217211543	Angola	Country in Southwest Africa that had a civil war where the Soviet backed the government and the U.S. backed the rebels	28
6217213108	Peacekeeping	Easing tensions in trouble spots; the UN is well known for	29
6217213109	Satellites	Small states that are economically or politically dependent on a larger more powerful state	30
6217213110	Containment	Holding communism where it was and not letting it spread farther	31
6217214169	Truman Doctrine	Strong statement that the US would do what it had to do to stop the spread of Communist influence, specifically in Greece and Turkey	32
6217214170	Marshall Plan	Designed to offer $13B more in aid to all nations of Europe from the US; Soviet Union refused along with satellites	33
6217215665	Berlin	German capital located within the Soviet Union but split into Eastern and Western	34
6320625745	Berlin Airlift	After Soviet blockade, US and Britain delivered supplies to Berlin through planes	35
6217215666	West/East Germany	Split of Germany between Democracy and Communist	36
6217218471	Mutual Assured Destruction/ MAD	Regardless of who started the war, both would be obliterated by the end of it	37
6217220254	Non-Aligned Movement	Developing countries that wished to avoid involvement in the Cold War banded together	38
6217220255	Red Guards	Groups of revolutionary students	39
6217221421	Tiananmen Square	Peaceful student-led demonstration where soldiers responded by killing hundreds	40
6217221422	Korean War	War between the North and South that ended in a stalemate	41
6217221423	Vietnam War	War between the North and South which the North won and led to Communism	42
6217221424	Viet Cong	South Vietnamese who fought guerilla war against US troops	43
6217223505	Tet Offensive	Attack by North Vietnam that showed that the US was having difficulty winning the war	44
6217223506	Prague Spring	Czechoslovakia movement to gain freedom; met with four Warsaw powers crushing it	45
6217226493	Brezhnev Doctrine	Claimed the Soviet Union and its allies had the right to intervene if an action by one member threatened other socialist countries	46
6217226494	Irish Republican Army/ IRA	Northern Irish Catholics that fought to unite with Ireland due to descrimination	47
6217229087	Ulster Defense Association	Northern Irish Catholics fought in to stay with Britain	48
6217229088	Terrorism	Using violence to achieve political ends	49
6217230715	Basque Homeland and Freedom/ ETA	Terrorist who wanted freedom from Spain	50
6217230716	Kent State University	Antiwar demonstration in the US that resulted in four unarmed students killings	51
6217232286	Berlin Wall	Wall between East and West Berlin	52
6217232287	Bay of Pigs	Failure to overthrow Castro	53
6217233811	Cuban Missile Crisis	USSR tried to put missiles in Cuba to aim at US	54
6217233812	Hot Line	Direct telegraph/teleprinter link between the US and Soviet leaders	55
6217235793	Détente	Relaxation on strain between nations	56
6217235794	"Star Wars"	System to destroy any Soviet nuclear missiles that target the US	57
6217236200	Glasnost	Policy of opening up Soviet society and the political process by granting greater freedom	58
6217236220	Human Rights	Basic protections common to all people	59
6217238931	Universal Declaration of Human Rights	UN document that formalized its position on human rights	60
6217240160	Iron Curtain	Metaphor coined by Winston Churchill to describe the split between Eastern and Western Europe	61
6217240161	Cultural Revolution	War to lead Chinese society to a Communist future	62
6217242192	Thich Quang Duc	Buddhist monk who protested the government of South Vietnam by lighting himself on fire	63
6217242193	Domino Theory	Belief that if one country in Asia fell to Communists, other countries would soon follow	64
6217242194	Refugees	People who have fled their homes	65
6217243729	Hydrogen Bomb	Bomb developed the was more powerful than the atomic	66
6217245533	Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles/ ICBM	Capable of delivering nuclear warheads into US territory	67
6217245534	Sputnik	First artificial satellite launched by Soviet Union	68
6217247437	Antinuclear Movements	Opposition to nuclear weapons	69
6217248614	International Monetary Fund/ IMF and World Bank	Agencies the UN works through to provide technical advice and loans to developing nations	70
6217250008	World Trade Organization/ WTO and General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/ GATT	Work to promote free trade worldwide	71
6217251954	Great Leap Forward	Mao Zedong's policy that organized peasant land into communes; failure and 20 million starved	72
6217251955	Communes	Large agricultural communities where land was held by the state rahter than by private owneres	73
6217254593	European Economic Community/ EEC/ Common Market	Allowed for free trade between some European countries; led to the EU	74
6217254594	Euro	Common currency between members of the EU	75
6217254595	Perestroika	Attempts to restructure the Soviet economy to allow elements of free enterprise	76