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glasnost means
openess
what did glasnost demonstrate?
a hope to to make the soviet government more democratic and forthright
group that is even more radical than the Palestinian liberation organization (PLO)
hamas
the great chinese protest took place at ____ square
tiananmen
russian leader that pushed the soviet union toward collapse
mikhail gorbachev
if south vietnam fell to communism, then other countries would fall as well. Eisenhower called this the ______.
domino theory
after america withdrawed from south vietnam, the neighboring countries of ____ and _____ fell to the communists
laos, cambodia
US president _____ gradually reduced the american involvement in vietnam
richard nixon
the program of gradual american withdrawal was called
Vietnamization
the communist leader of vietnam
ho chi minh
military alliance between russia and its satellite states in eastern europe
warsaw pact
commander of the UN forces in korea
douglas macarthur
organization formed in europe to ally member nations against a common enemy
NATO (north atlantic treaty organization)
greatest symbol of the cold war
berlin wall
communist militant who gained control of cuba in 1959
fidel castro
winston churchill’s term to represent the division between the communist world and the free world
iron curtain
cia trained cuban exiles who tried but failed to invade cuba was called the
bay of pigs
declined to run for reelection because of his unpopular policies in vietnam
lyndon johnson
became first non communist leader of poland since 1945
lech walesa
declared vietnam free of french rule
ho chi minh
forced the soviets to remove their missles from cuba
john f kennedy
limited wars between small powers backed by either the soviets or the us during the cold war was called
contained wars
communist guerillas in south vietnam
viet cong
soviets development of their first atomic bomb spawned the
arms race
congress authorized the president to go to war with Vietnam after an attack on warships in the
gulf of tonkin
americans turned against the war effort after the
tet offensive
a relaxation of tension
detente
american spy plane shot down by soviets
u-2 incident
the collapse of the _____ was caused by unsettled leadership, economic woes, and unrest of eastern europeans
soviet union
it is _____ that the u-2 incident was a part of the vietnam war
false
the ____ parallel marked the border between north and south korea
38th parallel
what was the purpose of the cultural revolution
stir up zeal for radical communism
what did charles de gaulle’s fifth republic’s constitution provide for?
provided for a strong president