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*Peace keeping organization
*Created Post WWII
*Replaced the League of Nations |
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*Phrase created by Churchill
*Meant the invisible division between Democratic Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe |
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*American Foreign Policy
*Created by Pres. Truman
*It is a policy to stop or contain the spread of Communism |
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| *A U.S policy to give economic and military aid to free countries who were threatened by other nations |
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| US assistance program to give food and other materials to Western Europe to rebuild post WWII |
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| *A political conflict between the Soviet union and the United States |
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*North Atlantic Treaty Organization
*A military pact between 10 Western European nations, Canada and the USA
*If one nation was attacked, all the other nations in NATO would come to their defense |
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*A defense pact between the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and other communist nations
*Was in a response to the creation of NATO |
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| *Being on the edge of war |
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*communist leader of China post WWII
*Used guerilla warfare against the Japanese
*Created the idea of the "The Great Leap Forward" |
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*Expanded the success of the first five year plan
*This plan called for larger collective farms (communes)
*Was a failure due to poor planning, peasants had no incentive to work and failure crops during it led to the death of 20 million poeple |
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*Militia untis encouraged by Mao ZeDong
*Consisted of millions of high school and college students who Mao encouraged to learn revolution by making a revolution |
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*A cultural revolution led by the Red Guards
*Goal: To establish a society of peasants and workers where all were equal
*Caused great instability in China |
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A Soviet Union policy created by Gorbachev
*Means openness, citizens are allowed to speak without censorship |
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Restructuring of the Soviet Union
*Changes to the Soviet Union Economy and government |
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| Countries that remain neutral and do not take a side |
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Countries in Eastern Europe that were given to the Soviet Union after WWII
*These countries will be part of the Warsaw Pact with the Soviet Union |
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*Revolutionary
*Socialist
*Communist dictator of Cuba |
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The Soviet Union placed missiles facing the United States in Cuba
*The USA sets up a naval blockade around Cuba and eventually the Soviet Union takes down the missiles |
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*Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
*Agreement between the USA (Nixon) and the Soviet Union (Brezhnev)
*An agreement to limit weapons |
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*Communist leader of North Vietnam.
*Won Vietnam War and controlled communist Vietnam |
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*Previously controlled by the French
*Divided on the 17th parallel |
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| Anti communist dictator put in charge of S. Vietnam by the French and Americans |
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| Nixon's plan to slowly remove American troops from the Vietnam War |
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*Korea divided into communist North and anti communist south on the 38th parallel
*North was backed by the Soviet Union and invaded the American backed south
*War is at a cease fire/stalemate
*1950-1953 |
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