Cold War Key Events and Leaders
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Iron Curtain: Division of Europe into mostly democratic (west) and communist (east)
Containment: Foreign policy, Harry Truman blocked Soviet influence to stop the spread of communism
Brinkmanship: Policy under Eisenhower where our country would go to the edge of war
Castro: Cuban Communist dictator
Nikita Khrushchev: Took over after Stalin
JFK: President 1960-1963 and during Cuban missile crisis
Douglas MacArthur: General of UN troops in Korean War
Domino Theory: Idea that if one country becomes Communist, others will follow
UN: Organization of nations to solve world problems
Marshall Plan: US assisted West Europe by providing food, machinery, and materials
Cold War: Communist (USSR) vs democracy (America)
Warsaw Pact: Alliance of USSR with other Eastern Europe nations
Détente: Nixon's policy to lessen Cold War tension
Vietnamization: Nixon's plan to have South Vietnam take over war and pull US out
Truman Doctrine: Truman's pledge to support countries that reject communism with military aid
Harry Truman: President at the beginning of Cold War 1945-52
Stalin: Leader of USSR at Yalta Conference (split up Germany east and West) with Churchill and Roosevelt
Roosevelt: Also at Yalta Conference
Partition: Division of India between Muslim and Hindu
Ferdinand Marcus: General who took power in Indonesia in '65 and became dictator
Jomo Kenyatta: First leader of Kenya
Mobutu Sese Seko: Ruler of Zaire 1965-1997
Mohammed Ali Jinnah: Leader of Muslim League, then Pakistan's first president
Suharto: General who became Indonesian dictator
Jawaharlal Nehru: First Prime Minister of India
Intifada: Widespread campaign of civil disobedience by Palestinians
Non-aligned Nations: Neutral in Cold War
Third World Nations: Neutral countries
Cuban Missile Crisis: Castro was leader, USSR built missile sites in Cuba
Negritude Movement: Post-WW2 movement celebrating African heritage
Imre Nagy: Leader of Communist government in Hungary
Lyndon Johnson: President after JFK was assassinated
Romania: Post-war satellite nation belonging to Warsaw Pact
Nixon: President from '68-'74, anti-Communist
Reagan: Policy of Realpolitik ended Cold War
Leonid Brezhnev: Took over USSR after Khrushchev
SALT: Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty signed by Nixon with USSR
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Soviet dissident (anti-government) won Nobel Prize for Literature
Mau Mau: Secret society of African farmers forced off their land by British
Kwame Nkrumah: Revolutionary leader who worked to free the Gold Coast from British
Shahs: Conservative Muslim leaders
The Mujahideen: Organization of Muslim students who established harsh and oppressive rule
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi: Westernized Iran
The Contras: Group of rebels who fought in Nicaragua supported by US
Gold Coast: First free African nation