PRESENTATION OUTLINE
17th ARMISTICE
The parallel at which Vietnam was divided
BAY OF PIGS
The Bay of Pigs were and anti-Castro Cuban group of people who were trained by the CIA to invade Cuba.
BERLIN AIRLIFT
For about 11 months after Stalin tried to take over West Berlin, American and British officials had flown in food and supplies using the Berlin Airlift.
BERLIN WALL
Khrushchev built the wall Berlin Wall to stop the spread of "brain drain" into West Berlin. When this was torn down in 1989, it symbolized the end of the Cold War.
BRESHNEV DOCTRINEThe Breshnev Doctrine made the Soviets help the Communist bloc with military force.
BRINKMANSHIP
Trying to start something but as soon as it actually starts to happen then you back down and stop.
CONTAINMENT
The act of restricting the growth or ideological influence of another
DESTALINIZATION
Khrushchev purged the ways of Stalin out of the people of the Soviet Union
DETENTE
The ending of unfriendly encounters between countries
IRON CUTRAIN
The zone that represented the divisions within Europe
J.F.K
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president and was in office during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
KHRUSHCHEV
Soviet Union leader and launched Sputnik 1
SOLIDARITY
Polish trade union
U-2s
During the Cold War the CIA used these planes as spy planes
UNITED NATIONS
Improved League of Nations; intended to help member against aggression.
SPUTNIK 1
The Soviet Union had launched the first artificial Earth satellite.
SATELLITE COUNTRIES
Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, and East Germany.
STALIN, CHURCHILL, AND ROOSEVELT
The Big Three
MCCARTHYISM
Because of McCarthy there were events such as the Red Scare and witch hunts.
M.A.D
This was the barrier to starting a nuclear war because both sides knew that it would be their own self-destruction.
MAASTRICHT TREATY (1991)
Created the European Union (EU)
HO CHI MINH
Tried to gain independence form France and Japan. Vietnamese nationalist.
