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Post War Era
Chapter 23
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11th Grade
05/16/2011

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United Nation
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an idealistic effort to maintain peace, charter to towards fifty nations organization
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cold war
Definition
hostility between two super powers - US and Soviet Union
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Iron Curtain
Definition
Churchill described this as the unfolding events in Europe separting communist east from free west.
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Iron Curtain
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Churchill described this as the unfolding events in Europe separting communist east from free west.
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containment
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Truman thought to stop Soviet Expansion, and allowed Soviets certain area to communist control. Any expansion would be met with military force.
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Truman Doctrine
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Policy of aiding countries fighting communist takeover, (economic aid)
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Marshall Plan
Definition
European Recovery Program was further expanded to immunize against communism and but also restored these European countries as trading partners with the U.S.
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NATO
Definition
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a mutual defense pact between 10 western European countries, US and Canada
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Warsaw Pact
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1995 Communist Eastern European countries developed this organization to counter NATO.
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Berlin Airlift
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Truman responded to Stalin's attempt to take over West Berlin by sending massive amounts of aid and food by helicopter to West Berlin
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Chiang Kai-Shek
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Nationalists of China 1920s
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Mao Zedong
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Communists involved in civil war from 1920s
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38th Parallel
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Korea was divided into North(communist) and South(free) Korea at this latitude
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Douglas MacArthur
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American hero of Pacific War in WWII was in charge of UN military force. When North Korea tried to extend into South Korea, he maneuvered them back, past 38th parallel. Communist China then stepped in.
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Inchon
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Seaport halfway up western coast of Korea.
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Limited War
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a war with a limited objective, short of total victory over the enemy.
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Dwight Eisenhower
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chief executive, President, serving two terms. He was a war hero.
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John F. Kennedy
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President after Eisenhower, wanted accommodate communism for peaceful existence.
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Peaceful coexistence
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was phrase coined to describe the goal of US-USSR relations, no longer needed total victory over communism.
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Ho Chi Minh
Definition
communist leader that had a guerilla war against French which climaxed in 1954 with battle of Dien Bien Phu, defeat for France, US sent aid economically.
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Ngo Dinh Diem
Definition
after French withdrew , anti communist president of South Korea
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domino theory
Definition
Eisenhower thought that if one communist nation fell to communism than the rest would fall like a row of dominos.
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Fidel Castro
Definition
Cuban Dictator that overthrew Fulgencio Batista, he created a communist state 90 miles from Florida
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Bay Of Pigs
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Kennedy had CIA worked to overthrow with a counterattack on Fidel Castro using Cuban exiles. It failed.
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Cuban missile crisis
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Soviet Union challenged Kennedy by installing missiles in Cuba. Kennedy ordered a blockade of Cuba, Soviets honored.
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Berlin Wall
Definition
1961 East Berlin built wall to separate west and eastern berlin, communism and freedom separated.
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