Cold War Vocabulary Answers – Flashcards
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Alger Hiss
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accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury
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Bay of Pigs
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failed invasion of Cuba by a group of anti-Castro forces in 1961
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Berlin Wall
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barrier built by the East German government to separate Communist and non-Communes Berlin
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Cold war
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the competition that developed after WWII between the United States and the Soviet Union for power and influence in the world, until the collapse of the Soviet Union
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Communism
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ideology of the Soviet Union, characterized there by complete government ownership of land and property, single party control of the government, lack of individual rights, and the call for a worldwide revolution
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Containment
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american policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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1962 crisis that arose between the US and the Soviet Union over a Soviet attempt to deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba
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Dwight Eisenhower
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WWII general who later became president at the beginning of the Vietnam War
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Fidel Castro
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Communist dictator of Cuba during the Cold War
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Glasnost
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Russian term, literally meaning "openness," applied in the Soviet Union beginning in the mid-1980s to official permission for public discussion of issues and public access to information
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Gorbachev
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soviet leader at the end of the Cold War who ended up
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John F Kennedy
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US president during Vietnam who was later assassinated
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Joseph McCarthy
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unted states politician who unscrupulously accused many citizens of being Communists
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
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were American communists who were executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage
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Korean War
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war between North and South Korea to prevent communist North Korea from forcing South Korea to become communist
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Limited War
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a war whose objective is less than the unconditional defeat of the enemy
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Lyndon Johnson
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US pres during vietnam who extended troops into Vietnam
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Marshall Plan
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program of economic assistance to Western Europe
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Nationalism
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extreme pride in one's country
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NATO
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization, alliance formed by democratic nations of Western Europe and the US
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Perestroika
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meaning is "restructuring," referring to the restructuration of the Soviet political and economic system
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Richard Nixon
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US pres at the end of Vietnam War who started withdraw of troops from Vietnam
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Ronald Regan
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US pres who ordered the tearing down of the Berlin Wall
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Truman Doctrine
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speech by President Harry Truman that called for the US to take leadership in he world and declare the US would support nations threatened by communism
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Vietnam War
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war between North and South Vietnam in order to prevent South Vietnam from becoming communist
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Vietnaminization
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Pres Nixon's policy of replacing American military forces with those of South Vietnam
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Warsaw Pact
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military alliance between Soviet Union and nations of Eastern Europe formed in 1955
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Watergate Scandal
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scandal involving illegal activities that led ultimately to the resignation of President Nixon
