Monday: No School
Tuesday:
Top 5 communist Countries - Laos, Cuba, Vietnam, China, North Korea
Democracy
Communism
Socialist
capitalism
Cause of the cold war
- Different Political systems
- Red Scare 1919
- Stalin breaking his promise to allow free elections at the Yalta Conference
- American fear of a Communist attack( Red Scare) and USSR fear of US attack
- USSR fear of the atomic bomb
Wednesday Thursday, Friday:
KEY TERMS
Iron Curtain Speech - Speech given by Winston Churchill
Domino Theory - A communist victory in one nation would quickly lead to a chain reaction of communist takeover.
Policy of Containment - A policy in 1947 made by Harry Truman to spread the stop the spread of communism.
Truman doctrine - America will help any country that is threatened by Communism, mainly Greece and Turkey in 1947 by Harry Truman
Marshall Plan - US paying to help European economy after WWII
Brinkmanship - Letting a situation to become extremely dangerous in order to get result
Massive Retaliation - A strategy of military counter attack that involves nuclear weapons
Mutual Deterrence - using military presence and use nuclear weapon to defend country
NATO - Organization of 12 countries of the Atlantic Pact for Defense of line with many European countries.
Warsaw Pact - A military treaty and association of European countries, formed in 1955 and dissolved in 1991. opposite of NATO (USSR, West Germany, Bulgaria, Cezh)
CIA - An agency that investigates and gathers security information though human intelligence
KGB - The former Soviet Union intelligence agency formed in 1954, a mix of CIA and FBI.
Peaceful Coexistence - living together in peace rather than in constant hostility.
De-Stalinization - disregarding or ignoring the influence, image and leadership of Joseph Stalin from WWII.
Detente - the easement of tension between two sides in either a negotiation or agreement.
Perestroika - Restructuring of the Soviet Communist Government during 1980.
Glasnost -
Nuclear Test Band Treaty - Treaty to stop testing Nuclear Weapons.
Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty - Treaty used to try to prevent the wide spread if Nuclear weapons but it could still be used for energy.
Strategic Arms Limitation Talk - Restrain the Nuclear arms race.
Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty - Treaty to ban Nuclear testing. 1996
Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty 1972 - Control their arms race in nuclear weapons. Banning any ABM systems.
Missile Defense System - Defense to block from incoming missiles
Comments
Good but you missed a weekly blog week.