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KEY TERMS-100
US policy of trying to stop the spread communism and support the countries that rejected it.
Double points: What is the policy of US providing financial and military aid to nations in an effort to fight communism.
Containment/Truman Doctrine

$200
KEY TERMS - $200
Alliance that included the US,
Canada, Great Britain and other non-communist European countries
NATO

KEY TERMS - $300
Alliance established by European communist nations in response to
NATO
Warsaw Pact

KEY TERMS- $400
Term used by Winston Churchill to describe the Soviet Union and its satellite nations
The Iron Curtain

KEY TERMS- 500
Marshall Plan

$100
IMPORTANT EVENTS- $100
Conference which took place after WWII in order to divide
Germany between Allied forces
Yalta Conference

IMPORTANT EVENTS- $200
The failure of this invasion of
Cuba aimed at overthrowing
Fidel Castro
Invasion of the Bay of Pigs

$300
IMPORTANT EVENTS- $300
Name of the revolution which took place in China and led to the creation of the Red army & caused chaos
Cultural Revolution

IMPORTANT EVENTS
EVENTS- $400
Middle Eastern Country invaded by the Soviets in 1979 to reestablish a communist government
Afghanistan

IMPORTANT EVENTS- $500
The U.S. increased spending on education and technology so that they could compete in this race with the U.S.S.R
Space Race

IMPORTANT PEOPLE-$100
USA president who started the policy of containment
Harry Truman

IMPORTANT PEOPLE-$200
Soviet leader who tried to reform the USSR in the 1980’s, and who ultimately contributed to its collapse
Mihail Gorbachev

IMPORTANT PEOPLE- $300
USA president who urged
Gorbachev to tear down the
Berlin Wall
Ronald Reagan

IMPORTANT PEOPLE- $400
Leader who won the Chinese
Civil War and created the
People’s Republic of China
Mao Zedong

IMPORTANT PEOPLE- $500
Iranian leader who led the religious opposition to western influences in Iran
Ayatollah Khomeini

ASIA AND THE
COLD WAR - $100
This is the term used to describe
Nixon’s plan to remove U.S. troops from Vietnam
Vietnamization

ASIA AND THE COLD WAR-
$200
Pro- Communist South
Vietnamese fighters
Vietcong

$300
ASIA AND THE COLD WAR-
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The idea that if Vietnam became communist the whole continent would become communist
Domino Theory

ASIA AND THE
COLD WAR-$400
This was Mao’s plan to create large collective farms and improve industry
Great Leap Forward

ASIA AND THE
COLD WAR-$500
The U.S. lead a U.N. military force in response to the 1950s invasion
(what country invaded what other country)
North Korea’s invasion of South Korea

COLD WAR BASICS -$100
The U.S. helped overcome a Soviet blockade at this location because it was behind the iron curtain.
West Berlin

COLD WAR BASICS $200
This Russian leader stated that communism and capitalism could not exit in the same world.
Stalin

COLD WAR BASICS $300
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Communism ended in Poland,
Czechoslovakia, Hungary after this person became the leader of the U.S.S.R.
The election of Mikhail
Gorbachev

COLD WAR BASICS $400
US President during the Cuban
Missile Crisis
John F. Kennedy

COLD WAR BASICS $500
He became the first president of the Russian Federation
Boris Yeltsin

OTHER - $100
Country created in 1947 for the
Jewish people displaced after the
Holocaust
Israel

OTHER- $200
The crisis between USA and The
USSR caused by the placement of Soviet missiles in a Caribbean country
Cuban Missile Crisis

OTHER - $300
The goal of the Truman Doctrine an containment
To prevent the spread of communism

$400
OTHER - $400
Stalin’s unfulfilled promise of free elections led to the breakdown of the alliance between
USA and the Soviet Union

OTHER - $500
The developing countries not allied with the US or the Soviet
Union
Third World Countries