Whc23 The Cold War Era

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NATO

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North American Treaty Organization; purpose was to unite Western defenses in Europe against Communism

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containment

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the U.S. policy after World War II that determined to keep communism within its set borders

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perestroika

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Russian term for "restructuring" to increase industrial productivity

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Great Society

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President Johnson's plan to eliminate poverty in the United States

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Truman Doctrine

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the policy that promised American aid to countries resisting Communist aggression

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Warsaw Pact

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military alliance that included Russia and her satellite states in Eastern Europe

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domino theory

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maintains that international communism would control Europe, Asia, and eventually the world, if left unchallenged

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Fidel Castro

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seized power in Cuba in 1959 and allied his country with the Soviet Union

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Sputnik

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the first man-made satellite successfully launched

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Berlin Wall

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physical wall that separated East and West Berlin; the most recognizable symbol of the Cold War

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Cold War

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Post World War II state of apprehension, hostility, and competition between the Soviet Union and the United States

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Thatcher

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the "Iron Lady" of British conservatism

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Churchill

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"an iron curtain has descended across the Continent"

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Walesa

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first non-communist prime minister in Poland since 1945

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Eisenhower

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pursued "peaceful coexistence" with the Soviets

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Johnson

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declined to run for reelection because of his unpopular policies in Vietnam

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Kennedy

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Forced the Soviets to remove their missiles from Cuba

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Nixon

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presided over the Vietnamization of he war in Vietnam

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Reagan

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denounced he Soviet Union as an "evil empire"

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Truman

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established the American Policy of containment

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What were the motives for Soviet expansion?

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1. fear of the United States

2. Communist ideology

3. desire for power

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What did Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, and Bulgaria all have in common after World War II?

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they all became subjects of the Soviet Union

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What was the immediate cause of the Korean War?

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North Korean invasion of South Korea

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After an attack on American warships in the Gulf of Tonkin, Congress effectively authorized the president to fight a war with what country?

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Vietnam

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What serious crisis of the Cold War occurred in 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union?

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when the United States insisted that the Soviet Union remove the Soviet missiles from Cuba

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Why did President Reagan propose the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)?

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because he wanted to deal with the Soviet Union from a position of strength

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Define and briefly discuss the Marshall Plan. Explain how it served to intensify the cold war.

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The long-term purpose of the Marshall Plan was to rebuild Western Europe economically and thereby thwart any advance of communism in that area of the continent. It also helped to created strong trading partners for the United States. Since the Soviet Union and her Eastern European subjects rejected the American offer of economic assistance, the act further intensified the Cold War.