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12 Cards in this Set
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Fall of the Berlin Wall (year) |
1989 |
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Glasnost |
policy of "openness" that encouraged people to openly critize the Soviet government and practice freedom of speech for the first time |
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Iron Curtain |
Winston Churchills speech which described how European nations had been divided between those that were free and democratic and those that were controlled by communism |
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Marshall Plan |
After WW2 the United States sends billions of dollars of economic aid to Western Europe to help them rebuild their economies and to prevent the spread of communism |
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McCarthyism (2nd Red Scare) |
U.S. Senator who came to power by issuing accusations that communists had infiltrated prominent positions in the government, military and entertainment industries. Used the fear of communism to further his career |
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Mutually Assured Destruction |
The deterrent or concept that prevented the United States and Soviet Union from engaging in a nuclear conflict |
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NATO |
Military alliance of the European nations to prevent Soviet aggression against Western Europe |
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Potsdam/Yalta |
WW2 conferences that set the stage for the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union |
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Prague Spring |
Czechoslovakians protest against communism and for democracy. Soviet military comes in an crushes the movement |
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Perestroika |
Economic restructuring. Soviet Union economy adopts capitalism |
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Premier Gorbachev |
Soviet leader who ideas of "openness" and economic restructuring led to the end of the cold war |
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Premier Khrushchev |
Soviet leader who led his nation during the most intense and dangerous period of the cold war (1960-1963) |
