Cold War
Weapons
Presidents
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Marshall Plan
Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism
Alliances
Winston Churchill
Iron Curtain
UN
Warsaw Pact
NATO
Harry S. Truman
Richard Nixon
JFK
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
SALT I
SALT II
START
Atomic Bomb
MAD
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bay of Pigs
Fidel Castro
Russia
Nikita Khrusgchev
NSC-68
Soviet Telegram
Division of Cold War
Korean War
Vietnam War
Soviet Invasion of Afganistan
Chile
Salvador Allende
Augusto Pinochet
Mikhail Gorbachev
Glasnost
Perestroika
Chernobyl
Fall of Berlin Wall
a deadly weapon designed during WWII
US president at end of WII and during the first years of the cold war
Japanese cities that got bombed by nuclear weapons during the cold war
US aid to Europe to prevent spread of Communism #
Senator from Wisconson
made up communist conspiracies #
Bretton woods conference
World Bank
also from Bretton Woods Conference aid Europe in recovering from WWII by loaning money
IMF
International Monetary Fund
created in 1944 from Bretton woods Conference stabilize world economy & prevent another GD
1944 conference to deal with world economic issues.
Peace Corps
An organization created by JFK encouraging Americans to Help out one another #
United Nations Intergovernmental Organization Prevent another WW & help economy
General Assembly - Assembly of all nations in UN
Security Council - Main Government of UN Members are France Britain US USSR and China
a group of European States to stop Communism from Spreading in Europe
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Communism
USSR Alliance to defend E. Europe From NATO #
Nixon in China
Nixon's Decision to open relations up b/t US and China, hoped to scare soviets back to the Arms talks
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1972 agreement to stop building ICBMs for 5ys #
1979 Treaty to put a cap on the # of ICBMs for US & USSR #
STrategic Arms Reduction Talks - US/USSR meetings to reduce nuclear stockpiles
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Mutually Assured Destruction - policy saying you must have nuclear weapons to ensure that after an attack you would have enough to retaliate; lessening chance of attack
CIA operated failed invasion of Cuba
A pro-soviet leader of Cuban Rev. created a communist stated that improved conditions #
leader of Russia during Cuban Missile Crisis #
discussing policy of containment - block expansion of Soviet power encourage destruction within the Soviet system.
policy of containment - containing communism from expanding #
US Attempt to contain communism in SE Asia
Soviet attempt to push Afgan towards communism #
Ex. of Containment: CIA helped remove democratically electected leader who had communist views
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dictator of Chile replaced Salvador Allende in 1973
democratically elected president of Chile overthrown by military with US help
policy of *resurrecting or reforming economic & political system
openness policy of more transparency and loosening op control on info
nuclear power plant that melted down which led to glasnost
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demo as result of glasnost led E. Germans to destroy wall in 1989.
1946 Telegram from Soviet ambassador complaining that the US was aimed at World Domination