Chapter 31: The Cold War

U.S. promise to support countries fighting communism.

A country that is economically and politically dependent on another country.

A plan to keep something, such as communism, within its existing geographical boundaries and prevent further aggressive moves.

U.S. policy to rebuild war-torn Europe.

A military alliance of the Soviet Union and Eastern European states.

The United States and the Soviet Union became rivals after World War II because

The Truman Doctrine promised to

The Marshall Plan was based on the idea that

The Berlin Wall was erected in order to

The Soviet Blockade of West Berlin was intended to

Mao Zedong, the leader of the Communists in China's civil war, was victorious in the Civil war.

The huge communes in China were a great success because they produced record amounts of food.

Permanent revolution was Mao's belief that an atmosphere of constant revolutionary fervor would destroy his idea of Chinese communism.

The Red Guards' purpose was to force the Chinese people to obey the new ideas and eliminate the old ones.

Americans feared the spread of communism to China because the United Staes worried that the Communists wanted to dominate the world.

After Mao's forces claimed victory in the civil war,

The purpose of Mao's Great Leap Forward program was to

The Red Guards consisted of people who were

Why did the people of China ultimately reject the Cultural Revolution?

Why China's relations with the Soviet Union become strained?

The twentieth-century conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union is known as ______.

_______ was the agreement between the United States and Vietnam that allowed the United States to withdraw troops from Vietnam.

Exiled Cuban fighters invaded Cuba at the _______.

The Soviet Union and the United States were involved in _____ when they used substitutes to fight each other.

_____ led a revolution in Cuba and took over the government.

The United States sent troops to Vietnam to

During the Cuban missile crisis, Khrushchev agreed to remove the missiles from Cuba if the United States would

The United States considered Cuba a threat because

The U.S. government believed that if they lost South Vietnam to communism,

In 1945 the original agreement between the Soviet Union and the United States was to