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31 Cards in this Set
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Cold War |
Conflict of intense political, economic, military, and ideological rivalry between countries. |
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Communism |
A type of system in which all the economic and social activity is controlled by the government and used for all the community. |
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Capitalism |
An economic system in which production, distribution and exchange of wealth is controlled by private individuals and corporations. |
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Iron curtain |
A barrier of information and ideas caused by the political, economic and ideological rivalry of one country to another. |
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Truman Doctrine |
A policy made by President Truman to provide military and economic aid to countries that were threatened by communism or totalitarianism. |
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COMECON |
An economic association of communist countries to facilitate trade and development. |
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COMINFORM |
An organization made of communist countries to coordinate and advise each other. |
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NATO |
An organization made in Washington, including the countries of the Atlantic pact. to with the purpose of defense against aggression. |
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Marshall Plan |
A European recovery program in which U.S. would donate 13 billion dollars to provide help to the economies that were affected during World War. |
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Warsaw Pact |
An organization of the U.S.S.R. and other countries to establish a collective defense. |
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Detente |
A moment in which tension between nations is reduced by agreements or negotiations. |
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Potsdam conference |
A conference during the end of WW2 in which Churchill, Truman and Stalin to decide about the administration of Germany. |
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Berlin blockade |
An attempt in which the Union tried to limit the access to France, Britain and U.S. to their sectors in Berlin. |
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Space race |
A nation's competition in space exploration. |
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Korean war |
A war between South Korea, supported by the U.S., and North Korea, supported by Communist China. |
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Vietnam War |
A war in 1954 between South Korea, North Korea, and the Vietcong. |
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Viet cong |
A communist force which was supported by North Vietnam against its government in the Vietnam War. |
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Glasnost |
The public policy of the Soviet Union discussing economic realities. |
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Perestroika |
A program of economic reform of the Soviet Union. |
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Ho Chi Minh |
The president of North Vietnam from 1954-1969 |
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Nikita Khrushchev |
Russia political leader from 1958-1964 |
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Brezhnev |
President Soviet communist party from 1964-82 |
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Harry S. Truman |
The president of the U.S. during the end of the WW2 and during the Cold War. |
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Dwight Eisenhower |
The U.S. general and statesman. |
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JFK |
John Fitzgerald Kennedy. One of U.S.'s presidents. His assassination became one of the most shocking events in the world, |
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Lyndon Johnson |
U.S.'s 26th president who sworn to build a better country after Kennedy's death. |
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Richard Nixon |
U.S.'s president from 1969-1974 |
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Gerald Ford |
U.S's president from 1974-1977 |
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James Carter |
U.S's president from 1977-1981 |
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Boris Yeltsin |
U.S.'s president from 1991-1999 |
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Examples of Cold War in Latin America |
Guatemala's revolution and Cuba |
