Cold War Test Study Guide
Vocab
Détente
An easing of cold war tensions in the 1970’s
De-Stalinization
Tried to erase Stalin from Russia history and got rid of most Stalin’s programs
Marshall Plan
Keep all economy in the US, US offered aid to all European countries
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Mikhail Gorbachev and his three reforms
Perestroika - government doesn't control all businesses
Glasnost - freedom of speech, books were unbanned and prisoners who bad mouthed the government were free
Demokratizatsia - now able to vote freely and can now act on those thoughts of unfairness toward the government
Molotov Plan
USSR’s response to Marshall plan, give money to help countries rebuild
Truman Doctrine
Sending money and weapons to fight of communism
NATO
Still there, expanded NATO forces helped people, democratic
Warsaw Compact
After NATO, Russia needed a barrier, communist
Brinkmanship
The policy of threatening to go to war as a response to enemy aggression
Afghan War Interviews
First one was an Afghan pesant and he told about the horrors of the Soviets destroying whole villages with bombs/rockets and how it was to be a refugee going to other countries to seek shelter
The second one was of a Russian soldier talking about the corruptness of the army and how the brutalities weren't just in the field, it was killed or be killed in the camps, and the necessities were few and far between and that the people of the place they Ravenshead, they were also cruel
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Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall Rise and Collapse
1961-1989
West and East Germany were at odds because West Germany was capitalist and East was communist
The USSR saw that the “good communist people” were going over to the West side and they couldn't take it anymore
Put up a fence in the middle of the night to test it out
People tried to go over the fence and they kept upgrading it until it was basically suicide to try
Russia became broke and couldn't pay soldiers to guard it
People decided they had enough and broke through the gates and the soldiers didn't do anything
A few days later, the wall came down with the breaking of Checkpoint Charlie