The Cold War

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  • Yulta Conference

    Also known as the crimea conference and code named the Argonauts conference, held from 4-11 february, 1945, the UK and the Soviet union for the purposes of discussing Germany and Europe's postwar reorganization, Soviet union, U.S, Great Britain

  • Cold war

    A state of geopolitical tension after ww2 between powers in the Easter bloc and powers in the western bloc

  • Domino Theory

    A theory that if one nation becomes a communist controlled the neighboring nations will also become communist controlled

  • United Nations

    A international peace keeping organization to which most nations in the world belong founded in 1945 to promote world peace, security and economic development

  • Peaceful Coexsistence

    Competition without war or a policy of peace between nations of widely differing political systems and ideologies, especially between the communist and non communist nations

  • Iron Curtain

    It was an imaginary wall that divided communism and capitalism countries

  • Truman Doctrine

    •Gave $400 million in economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey
    •To fend off communism and stay free
    •economic and military

  • Marshall Plan (ERP)

    •European recovery plan
    •16 countries received aid
    •$13 billion in aid given to rebuild western Europe
    •Offered to Eastern Europe But Soviet union said No
    •Economic

  • Draft Lottery

    •the draft had been seen as unfair to blocks and the poor
    •new draft lottery ended racial and economic discrimination

  • Berlin Aircraft

    •Stalin cut off supplies into west Berlin
    •US airlift food and supplies into the city
    •lasted 11 months
    •Stalin reopened supply lines
    •Economic

  • NATO

    •North Atlantic treaty organization
    •collective security
    •alliance to support one another military
    •Had to be a democracy
    •Political and Military

  • SEATO

    •South East Asian treaty organization
    •US + 7 other nations
    •To prevent the domino treaty
    •Military and Political

  • Eisenhower Doctrine

    •Like the Truman Doctrine but for the middle East
    •Offered economic and military support if communism threatened the middle East
    •Economic

  • Peace Corps

    •Program of volunteer assistance to developing nations of Asia,Africa,& Latin America
    •By 1968, 36,000 volunteers had helped in 60 nations
    •Economic

  • Alliance for progress

    •Foreign aid and program
    •Offered economic and technical assistance to Latin American countries
    •US invested $12 billion
    •economic

  • Berlin Wall

    A concrete wall that separated Easy Berlin and West Berlin from 1961-1989 built by the communist East Germany government to prevent it's citizens from fleeing to the west

  • SALT 1 treaty

    A five year agreement between the U.S and the Soviet union signed in 1972 that limited the nation's #'s of intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine launched missiles

  • Paris peace talks

    •1972 Nixon was re-elected and a cease-fire was negotiated ("Peace with honor")
    •1/27/1972 Paris peace talks concluded calling for an end to the U.S. involvement and the release of prisoners of war
    •South Vietnam "must fight it's own fight now"