Cold War

Question 1

Nuclear deterrence

Answer 1

buildling up capacity to fight —> however, neither opponent fights

Question 2

MAD

Answer 2

Mutually assured destruciton - if both sides possess enough nuclear weapons, neither side will attack

Question 3

Khrushchev policy

Answer 3

peaceful coexistence

Question 4

best example of brinkmanship

Answer 4

cuban missile crisis

Question 5

former name of European Union

Answer 5

European economic community

Question 6

NORAD

Answer 6

defense system for America to identify things in the airspace

Question 7

Yalta conference

Answer 7

• UN
• Eastern Europe = soviet soi
• Disagreements about Poland type of gov.

Question 8

Beginning of cold war

Answer 8

Potsdam conference

Question 9

Potsdam

Answer 9

• Poland gov. (London exiled polish gov. or Lublin)
• Germany reparations
• Eastern Europe
• atomic bomb

Question 10

Stalin aims

Answer 10

• command world economy
• keep G divided
• buffer

Question 11

Truman Doctrine

Answer 11

Aid, alliances, contianment

Question 12

George Kennan’s Long Telegram

Answer 12

• US Embassy in Moscow sent it in 1946
• advocated for containment and resistance

Question 13

Marshall Plan

Answer 13

• 1947-52
• “strings attached:” aid came with conditions that aligned with US interests
• USSR: “Dollar imperialism” –> Soviet satellite states rejected

Question 14

molotov plan vs COMECON

Answer 14

• temporary economic aid initiative aimed at pos-ww2 recovery
• COMECON: long term institutionalized organization

Question 15

Berlin blockade

Answer 15

1948-49
- introduce Deutsche Mark –> USSR saw as political move –> blockaded Berlin

Question 16

NATO

Answer 16

• 1949
• political and military
• worried about spread of commuinsm
• combine defensive strength. pursue collectively disarmament and arms control

Question 17

USSR repsonse ot NATO?

Answer 17

• Warsaw Pact 1955
• eastern Europe military alliance

Question 18

Hungary Rev 1956 (and Czech’s Pragua Spring 1968)

Answer 18

• protest communist-controlled gov.
• USSR used force to end

Question 19

1918 Brest-Litovsk Treaty

Answer 19

• USSR Trotsky and Central powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Ottoman)
• end Russia’s involvement in WW1 –> however, ceded Poland, Ukgraine, Baltic States, Finland to Germany

Question 20

What did stalinization / communization of eastern europe look like?

Answer 20

• poliitcal repression
• rigged elections
• salami tactics (isolate opposition, gradually arrest and exile)

Question 21

COMECON vs COMINFORM

Answer 21

COMECON: economic assistance
COMINFORM: politically unite communist parties

Question 22

Czech Communist Coup 1948

Answer 22

• after rejection of marshall plan, non-communist ministers unhappy
• communist strike: USSR backed security forces

Question 23

NSC-68

Answer 23

• 1950
• US increase in defense and military spending

Question 24

Cuban missile crisis

Answer 24

• US victory

Question 25

Korean war

Answer 25

- June 1950 - UN (USSR boycotted) sent support from 14 UN countries to South Korea, North = China + USSR - stalemate

Question 26

warsaw uprising 1944

Answer 26

- polish soldiers and civilians revolted against G-occupied Poland - USSR refused assistance - The Soviet Union, which was positioned on the outskirts of Warsaw during the uprising, did not intervene to help the insurgents, leading to significant disappointment among the Poles and creating tension between Poland and the Soviets.

Question 27

D-day 1944

Answer 27

- Stalin long demanded this - suspected delay was intentional

Question 28

Dropping of A-bomb on Hiroshima

Answer 28

- Aug 1945 - Stalin saw bomb as threat, accelerating Soviet efforts todevleop nuclear weapons and fu eling arms race

Question 29

Korena War

Answer 29

- 1950-53 - Kim Il Sung (North) - Douglas MacArthur: leader of US-backed, but later didn't listen to Truman and got fired

Question 30

why did US intervene into Korean war?

Answer 30

- fear of domino theory - red scare, mccarthyism (hunt of communists in US) - intervene through UN cause direct intervention wasn't going to look good to defend, not invade North Korea

Question 31

why did USSR intervene into Korean war?

Answer 31

- international leader - cocerned about Japan being anti-commuinst

Question 32

why did CHINA intervene into Korean war?

Answer 32

- pay back Kim for support of Chinese Civil War - international commuinst leader

Question 33

Khrushchev Secret Speech

Answer 33

1956 denounced stalin as crinimal

Question 34

Khrushchev policy

Answer 34

peaceful coexistence - 1953 (Stalin's death)-64 - diplomacy and cooperation- compete peacefully through tech advancements, economic copmetition, but not military confrontation

Question 35

Conference of Communist Parties

Answer 35

1957 - highlighted gorwing division between communist countries