Sneha K - The Cold War

By sneha082

  • Two Major Powers

    The United States and the USSR

  • Berlin

    Democratic government

  • Japan

    US occupation - MacArthur
    Democracy
    dominant economy

  • International Cooperative Organization

    The United Nations
    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
    The Warsaw Pact

  • Beginning of the Cold War

    Yalta Conference and the Soviet control of Eastern Europe

  • Cold War

    Democracy and the free enterprise vs dictatorship and communism

  • Iron Curtain

    Winston Churchill

  • Containment

    President Truman and the policy of Containment (preventing the expanding of communism

  • Marshall Plan

    European Recovery Program - helped Europe rebuild after WWII

  • The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

    code of conduct for the treatment

  • NATO

    North Atlantic Treaty Organization (military alliance)

  • Chinese Civil War

    China was divided into 2 nations

  • Chiang Kai-shek (or Jiang Jieshi)

    Became the leader of the Nationalist China (island of Taiwan)

  • Mao Tse-tung (or Mao Zedong-and sometimes called Chairman Mao)

    Became the leader of Communist China (mainland China)

  • Korea

    38th parallel after WWII, North Korean troops invaded South Korea, policy of containment, war ended in armistice

  • Battle at Dien Bien Phu

    The Vietnamese defeated the French and pushed them out of Vietnam

  • Ho Chi Minh

    Became the leader of Communist North Vietnam

  • Warsaw Pact

    military alliance by the Soviet Union

  • Vietnam

    domino theory

  • The United States

    Applied the containment theory to ending communism in Vietnam by sending troops in to fight

  • Deterrence

    Deterrence is the belief that having large amounts of nuclear weapons by both superpowers would prevent nuclear attack because both sides could strike back with devastating power

  • Berlin Wall

    The Berlin Wall became a powerful symbol of the division between east and west during the Cold War.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    brink of nuclear war, John F. Kennedy imposed naval blockade of Cuba

  • Indira Gandhi (India President)

    Developed a closer relationship with the Soviet Union and developed a nuclear program

  • The Paris Peace Accords

    Ended the fighting in Vietnam by the United States

  • North Vietnam defeated South Vietnam

    Vietnam was reunited as a communist country

  • Deng Xiaoping (Chinese Leader)

    Reformed Communist China's economy to a market economy leading to a rapid economic growth, but kept communist control of the government

  • Margret Thatcher (British Prime Minister)

    Close relationship with United States

  • Mikhail Gorbachev (Soviet Leader)

    Instituted policies of glasnost and perestroika which led to the fall of the Soviet Union

  • Berlin Wall came down

    East and West Germany re-unified

  • Soviet Union

    Economic collapse and break up