US 2 Final Review 2022

The __supported the nation's fight against Communism disliked Johnson’s policy of gradual troop increases in Vietnam

Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927)

Which countries also had Cold War Conflicts?

A period in 1950s America where Anti-Communism was rampant and at a fever pitch

After Sun Yat-sen's death in 1925, he favored a capitalist state supported by a military dictator

The Soviets and the United States will start a conflict consisting of Weapons of Mass Destruction

An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation.

former State Department Official, a former Communist spy, who was accused of spying for the Soviet Union

___ in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of West Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin

The Eastern European nations that remained under the control of the Soviet Union after the Second World War.

A thermonuclear weapon much more powerful than the Atomic bomb

American policy of resisting the further expansion of communism around the world

The massive surprise attack by the Vietcong on South Vietnamese towns and cities in early 1968.

Americans invest in a business. People save to invest in buildings, machines the goal is to make money.

A wall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West

The government owns the farms, industries, people’s lives, jobs, the press, and travel.

economic/political system which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners rather than the state

What countries are Communist Today?

Dwight Eisenhower signed this bill into law. Appropriating $25 billion for the construction of 40,000 miles of highway.

State of tension between 2 superpowers with no actual fighting; power struggle between the soviet union and the U.S

British physicist worked on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos was arrested in 1950 confessed to divulging atomic secrets

communist leader of North Vietnam used guerilla warfare to fight anti-communist American-funded attacks

Secret government documents published In 1971 revealed the u.s. the gov't had misled Americans about the Vietnam war.

A journalist active in communist circles - an alleged spy who had slipped classified information to Soviet agents.

Policy of pushing a situation to the brink of disaster to the limits - pushing dangerous situations to the edge

United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952)

A theory /system of social organization on the holding of all property common ownership ascribed to the community

Form of gov't that the Soviet Union practiced. It’s an economic system based on the theories of __________and________

What final event ended the Cold War?

Name for the U.S. and the Soviet Union after World War II because they were the two strongest countries in the world.