Cold War Powers and Policies

A dominant nation with global influence.

Barrier dividing Europe during the Cold War.

Strategy to prevent the spread of communism.

<p>Policy of increased openness in the USSR.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Military alliance of North America and Europe.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Operation to supply West Berlin during blockade.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Concrete barrier separating East and West Berlin.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Soviet policy to protect socialist regimes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>China's campaign to rapidly industrialize agriculture.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mass killings by Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Militant youth groups during China's Cultural Revolution.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>If one nation falls to communism, others will follow.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Reform policy aimed at restructuring the Soviet economy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Military alliance of Eastern Bloc countries.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Leader of the People's Republic of China.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Division line between North and South Korea.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Surprise attack by North Vietnamese forces in 1968.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Confrontation over Soviet missiles in Cuba, 1962.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam during the war.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Conflict where third parties support opposing sides.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Polish labor movement that became a political force.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Failed CIA invasion to overthrow Castro in Cuba.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Irregular warfare using small, mobile forces.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Increase in Earth's average temperature due to emissions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mutual reliance between countries in trade and economy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Division into opposing factions or groups.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Site in Beijing where Chinese students and workers gathered to demand greater political openness in 1989.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The French colonies of Cambodia and Laos and Vietnam were formerly organized as French Indochina.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The group of 8 powerful Russian political figures who conspired to overthrow the government; planned the 1991 Coup.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cuban Missile Crisis.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A group of Communist rebels who seized power in Cambodia in 1975.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A network of paths used by North Vietnam to transport supplies to the Viet Cong in South Vietnam.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Fall of Berlin Wall.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Area of swampy ground; where guerrilla warfare was used.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A Polish politician, a former trade union and human rights activist, and also a former electrician. He co-founded Solidarity, the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland from 1990 to 1995.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>the 1st prime minister of the Republic of the Congo/ was murdered/ engaging speaker/ jailed in 1956</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cuban dictator overthrown by Fidel Castro. Originally a sergeant in the military. Very corrupt leader with mobsters during his reign --he was anti-communist, so the US supported him.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Boycott of the 1980 Olympic games by the U.S. in protest over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; USSR retaliated in 1984 by boycotting L.A. Olympic games.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Communist Party leader who forced Chinese economic reforms after the death of Mao Zedong.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>American general; he commanded U.S. troops in the South Pacific during World War II; later he commanded UN forces in the Korean War; also drove the Bonus Marchers out of DC.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Communist leader of North Korea; his attack on South Korea in 1950 started the Korean War. He remained in power until 1994.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The willingness to go to the brink of war to force an opponent to back down.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. Wanting reform, he renounced the Brezhnev Doctrine, pulled troops out of Afghanistan, supported Glasnost, and urged perestroika; but all this failed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Head of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party, began a series of reforms- Prague Spring, sought to make communism more humanistic.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Leader of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, who terrorized the people of Cambodia throughout the 1970's.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>20th century pope from Poland who is credited with helping end Communist rule in Europe and improving the Catholic Church's relations with Judaism and Islam.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>First prime minister of India.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Shiite religious leader of Iran, led the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran and ordered the invasion of the US Embassy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Algerian Muslims who fought for the French during the Algerian War.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Leader of the Philippines who was elected but ruled as a dictator.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>First president of Indonesia.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Five Principles of the Indonesian constitution: belief in God, nationalism, humanitarianism, social justice, and democracy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A region of northern India and Pakistan over which several destructive wars have been fought.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An economic and social region including the countries surrounding the pacific ocean.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An organization that manufactures and markets products in many different countries and has multinational stock ownership and multinational management.</p> Signup and view all the answers