Causes of the Cold War First measures taken as competition in Cold War Three World Division Space race End of Cold War
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What is the "war economy"?
The economic model U.S. applied to end the Great Depression, after the failure of the New Deal, and once it entered WWII based on trading weapons and war technology.
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What was the Greek Civil War?
The internal conflict in Greece in which the British and U.S. anticommunist forces intervened to stop a possible Communist regime.
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What was the first world?
The group of countries led by U.S. applying Capitalism, democracy and the Containment Policy.
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What was the Sputnik I?
It was the first satellite that could surround the planet that was launched by the Soviets.
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Who was George Bush (father)?
He was the U.S. president that faced the "end" of Cold War and the dissolution of the USSR.
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Who was Harry Truman?
The U.S. president that came after Franklin D. Roosevelt and was in charge of ending WWII in the Pacific.
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What was the Novikov telegram?
It was the telegram sent by Nikolai Novikov and Viacheslav Molotov to the Soviet government in which they mentioned U.S. wanted a world domination.
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What was the second world?
The group of countries led by the USSR applying Sociaism/Communism to generate a world revolution of the proletariat.
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Who was Laika?
She was the first "complex" creature to be sent to the space. Unfortunately, she died and was not able to be brought back to Earth alive.
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Who was Mikhail Gorbachev?
He was the last Supreme Soviet of the USSR who tried to modernize the country with Perestroika and Glasnost.
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What is Capitalism?
The ideology that promotes individual effort, accumulation of capital and private property; it was mainly represented by U.S.
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What was the Truman Doctrine?
It was the measure U.S. president Truman applied to economically support countries with a red threat (Containment policy).
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What was the third world?
The group of countries in Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Asia and Oceania that were neither Capitalist nor Communist in which the main conflicts of the Cold War took place.
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Who was Valentina Tereshkova?
She was the first woman to be sent to the space and safely taken back to Earth.
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Who was Boris Yeltsin?
He was the first free-elected president of the independent Russian Federation.
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What is Communism?
The ideology that promotes communitary effort and cooperation with a central State that coordinates all decisions in a country.
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What was the Warsaw Pact?
It was a mutual military support organization of countries around the USSR against Capitalist countries.
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What was the missile crisis?
It was the conflict in which U.S. was establishing missile bases in Turkey towards the USSR and the USSR did the same in Cuba. U.S. airplanes discovered the situation in Cuba.
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Who was Alexei Leonov?
He was the first human taking a spacewalk in 1965.
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What was the "symbolic" end of Cold War?
On November 9, 1989; the Berlin Wall was dissambled/distroyed.
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What was the main interest of the USSR?
USSR wanted to control Eastern Europe to protect Soviet borders and balance the U.S. influence in Western Europe.
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What is the KGB?
It was the Committee for the Security of the State, the secret agency of the Soviet Union.
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What was the Chinese revolution?
It was the revolution in China in which the Nationalist forces escaped to Formosa (Taiwan) and the Communist forces established a regime in mainland China.
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What was the Apollo 11 mission?
It was the U.S. controversial commanded mission that "landed" in the moon.
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What was the "formal" end of Cold War?
On February 2, 1992; U.S. president George Bush and Russian president Boris Yeltsin gave a joint declaration on the end of Cold War in Camp David.






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