Shared Flashcard Set

Details

Cold War Vocab
words used during Cold War
20
History
10th Grade
09/21/2011

Additional History Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
Cold War
Definition
A state of political hostility existing between countries, characterized by threats, violent propaganda, subversive activities, and other measures short of open warfare, in particular.
Term
Iron Curtain
Definition
A notional barrier that prevents the passage of information or ideas between political entities, in particular
Term
Containment
Definition
The action or policy of preventing the expansion of a hostile country or influence
Term
George F. Kennan
Definition
An American advisor, diplomat, political scientist, and historian, best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War.
Term
Truman Doctrine
Definition
The US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection.
Term
Marshall Plan
Definition
A program of financial aid and other initiatives, sponsored by the US, designed to boost the economies of western European countries after World War II.
Term
Berlin Airlift
Definition
Airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin
Term
NATO
Definition
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Term
Warsaw Pact
Definition
A treaty of mutual defense and military aid signed at Warsaw on May 14, 1955, by communist states of Europe under Soviet influence, in response to the admission of West Germany to NATO.The pact was dissolved in 1991.
Term
Satellite Nations
Definition
A satellite state is a political term that refers to a country that is formally independent, but under heavy influence or control by another country.
Term
Detente
Definition
he easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries.
Term
Arms Race(nuclear)
Definition
a competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War
Term
ABMT
Definition
The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty was a treaty between the United States of America and the Soviet Union on the limitation of the anti-ballistic missile systems used in defending areas against missile-delivered nuclear weapons.
Term
NPT
Definition
the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty is a historic global agreement whose aim is to discourage the circulation of signatures for Nuclear Weapons in the year 1968. The Contract was enforced in 1970.
Term
Salt 1 and Salt 2
Definition
Salt 1: Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and an interim agreement between the Soviet Union and the United States.
Salt 2: SALT II was a controversial experiment of negotiations between Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev from 1977 to 1979 between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, which sought to curtail the manufacture of strategic nuclear weapons.
Term
2nd Red Scare
Definition
McCarthyism coincided with increased popular fear of communist espionage consequent to a Soviet Eastern Europe, the Berlin Blockade (1948–49), the Chinese Civil War, the confessions of spying for the Soviet Union given by several high-ranking U.S. government officials, and the Korean War.
Term
George C. Marshall
Definition
an American military leader, Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense.
Term
Harry S. Truman
Definition
He became 33rd President of the United States on Roosevelt's death in 1945 and was elected President in 1948; authorized the use of atomic bombs against Japan.
Term
Joseph Stalin
Definition
Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition.
Term
Winston Churchill
Definition
British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953.
Supporting users have an ad free experience!