Key terms - Widening of the Cold War

NSC-68

• National Security Council Resolution 68 - a review of USA’s strategic objectives and priorities after the ‘loss of China’

• National Security Council Resolution 68 - to gain China back

• National Security Council Resolution 68 - a review of Soviet foreign policy after the division of Germany

Mao Zedong

• Chinese nationalist who was the leader of the People’s Republic of China

• Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of People's Republic of China

• Chinese communist revolutionary who was the leader of the Kuomintang

Containment

• Soviet Union foreign policy to increase the spread of communism

• US foreign policy to stop the spread of Soviet/communist influence

• US foreign policy to increase the spread of Soviet/communist influence

Syngman Rhee

• Powerful propagandist for Korean nationalism within democratic context and leader of the Republic of Korea

• Communist leader of the democratic People’s Republic of Korea

• A man who created good relations between Mao Zedong and Stalin

Kim Il Sung

• A communist who was the leader of the Democratic Republic of Korea

• A capitalist who was the leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

• A communist who was the leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

38th Parallel

• The line that Vietnam was split

• The line that Korea was split

• The line that China was split

Red Scare

• promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of communism

• Fear that capitalism was spreading to communist states

Brinkmanship

• A strategy devised to force both sides to back down at the same time

• Strategy designed to convince one’s opponent that there is no risk of war or actual conflict

• Strategy designed to convince one’s opponent that there is a risk of war or actual conflict; one side shows no sign of backing down to force the other side into backing down

Warsaw Pact

• collective defence treaty established by the USA and seven satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe

• collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe

• collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven Democratic states in Central and Eastern Europe

Domino theory

• one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.

• one country in a region came under the influence of capitalism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.