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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