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Disarmament/ Conservatism (426-434)
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Undergraduate 1
04/21/2017

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Vietnamization
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Replacing the U. S. Troops with South Vietnamese Troops
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1973
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A cease-fire agreement in Vietnam was signed in Paris
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1975
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Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese and was renamed Ho Chi Minh City
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Edward Teller
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Father of the Hydrogen Bomb
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
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A pro-Communist U. S. Atomic consultant who opposed Edward Teller's nuclear weapons
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detente
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The idea of reducing tension or hostility between nations
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Henry Kissinger
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Ended American opposition to Communist China's membership in the UN
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Leonid Brezhnev
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Succeeded Khrushchev in Russia and continued the policy of "peaceful coexistence"
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Helsinki Accords
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Signed between the free world and the Communist block which promised better "economic cooperation" and "cultural changes" between the West and East
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Russian writer who warned the West not to be fooled into thinking that detente would bring peace
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Sputnik I
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The world's first man-made satellite
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Yuri Gagarin
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The first man in space
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1969
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Neil Armstrong lands on the moon
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SALT I
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The US and Soviet Union agreed to limit the production of nuclear arms
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Invasion of Afghanistan
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The most brutal "war of liberation"
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Margaret Thatcher
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Britain's first woman prime minister
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Falkland Islands
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The most extensive naval conflict since World War II
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Reagan Doctrine
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Making preemptive strikes to stop Communism before it could enslave a nation
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Grenada
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Used by Fidel Castro as a military base to invade South America
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KAL 007
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Soviet fighter jets shot down this South Korean airliner
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Chernobyl
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A nuclear reactor melted down here in Soviet Ukraine
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SDI
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A system of space-age weaponry to destroy enemy inter-continental ballistic missiles in flight
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Lech Walesa
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Led a movement of Polish nationalists called Solidarity
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Came to power as the Soviet Union after Brezchnev and announced a dramatic change of Communist policy
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INF Treaty
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Russia agreed to remove their medium range missiles from Europe
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Perestroika and Glasnost
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Restructuring and Openness
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1989
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The Communists had begun to lose control of Eastern Europe
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East and West Germany
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East and West Germany were officially united
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Nicolae Ceausescu
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This cruel dictator of Romania was executed
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