April 8th

[6Jessica]

We went over the key terms quick again.

The Cold War-US vs. Soviet Socialist Republics

Yalta Conference 1945-establish United Nations, Germany divided into 4 zones, Russia promised to get into war with Japan as soon as the War with Germany was over.

Key Terms

• Iron Curtain Speech
  • Churchill gave it,  set to contain communist
• Truman Doctrine
  • giving aid to help fight off communism in Greece and Turkey
• Marshall Plan
  • eastern Europiene countries to build up after WW2
• Brinkmanship
  • be on the brink of war without actually going to war (Cuban Missile Crisis) hope the other side backs down
• Massive Retaliation/Mutual Deterrence/ Mutual Assured Destruction
  • threat of massive fighting back and both sides know that they will completely destroy each other so they agree to not to
• NATO(our alliance with Europe)-still around vs. Warsaw(German alliance)- not around
• CIA (central intelligence agency) - gets info from and about other countries vs. KGB (soviet union FBI CIA)- gather info inside and outside the country
• Double Agent
  • giving info from the country to others
• Peaceful coexistence/De-Stalinization
  • competition without with war. and Un-doing what Stalin did
• Nuclear Test Ban-Treaty 1963
  • banned all tests of nuclear weapons US and Soviet Union (above ground)
• Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty 1968
  • international treaty to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons throughout the worldwhen they signed this treaty they said that they would not use nuclear power to make nuclear weapons, only for peaceful reasons like energy
• Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (Treaty) 1972
  • (SALT) US and Soviet Union to reduce the amount of nuclear weapons countries could have 
• Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty 1972
  • US (Nixon) and Soviet Union banned systems that detect missiles so you can destroy them if they are shot at you, Bush the kid dropped out of this treaty
• Detente
  • French for release of tension , between US and Soviet Union in 1970's
• Perestroika-1980's
  • McHale Gorbachev gets credit for ending cold war- he first said this which means being an open in economy 
• Glasnost- 1980's
  • increasing openness again but in government