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Great Britain
socialist politics and a weak economy led to the decline of England’s commonwealth.
Charles de Gaulle
became president in 1959 ansd led France to prosperity
Alcide de Gasperi
conservative statesman of Italy before it fell to coalition governments
Juan Carlos
successor of Francisco Franco in Spain; encouraged democratic rule
1955
What year did Western Germany become a nation
Konrad Adenauer
Who was the leader of West Germany
Red Brigade attacks
What attack had Italy’s government fall
Mao Tse-tung
communist leader
Chaing Kai-shek
nationalist leader
1927
war broke out between communists and nationalists of China
George C. Marshall
stopped trade with nationalists in 1945
Five-Year Plan
Mao’s plan to increase industry; agriculture declined and millions were lost
Great Leap Forward
Mao’s 2nd Five-Year Plan to increase industry; 15 million people died and the economy collapsed
Cultural Revolution
(1966) Chinese attempt to purge all Western influence; Red Guards destroyed property and killed thousands of people
1949
What year did the Communists won in China
Red Guards
Who destroyed property and killed thousands of people
North Korea
Communist; supported by Russia (Kim II Sung)
South Korea
Free; supported by America (syngman Rhee)
Douglas MacArthur
supreme commander of UN/US forces
38th Parallel
What divides Korea
1950
What year did North Korea invade South Korea
Pusan
Where did North Korea push the UN/US forces
Inchon
What did Douglas MacArthur suprising invade
MacArthur
Who did Truman remove from command
1951
What year was MacArthur removed from command
1953
What year did Stalin die
New York City
headquarters of the U.N. (1952)
General Assembly
representatives from all member nations
Security Council
5 permanent and 10 elected nations
Secretariat
The secretary General and his aids
1945
What year was the Charter for the UN written
Cold War
A “war of words and ideology between the Soviet Union (Communist bloc) and America (Free World)
Joseph McCarthy
An American senator who led an investigation into supposed Communist spies in American government;, it was unsuccessful
Iron Curtain
Churchill’s description of Soviet control over its Eastern European empire
Truman Doctrine
policy of Containment against communism; financial aid of nations threatened by communism (Turkey and Greece)
Marshall Plan
Eu. Recovery Program of economic assistance to rebuild Eu. after WWII
West Germany
free side
East Germany
communist side
Satellite nations
What did Soviet Union add to their empire
Operation Air-Lift (1948-1949)
American aid provided by airplane to West Berlin as a result of the Berlin blockade
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Nikita Khrushchev
Leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin’s Death
Marshall Tito
communist dictator of Yugoslavia
Berlin Wall
built by the Soviets in 1961 to enslave East Berlin
Soviet Warsaw Pact
What did NATO oppose to defend themselves from a Communist attack
Nikita Khrushchev
Who called for peaceful coexistence in the world
Fulgencio Batista
dictator of Cuba from 1934-1959
Fidel Castro
successfully overthrew Batista in 1959; became Communist dictator in Cuba
Bay of Pigs Incident
In 1961, President Kennedy promised aerial support to Cuban freedom fighters
Sandinistas
Communist revolutionaries of Nicaragua
Juan Peron
overthrew the government of Argentina and established tyrannical rule
Isabel Peron
1st woman to head a government in the Western Hemisphere
Salvador Allende
communist president of Chile
Augusto Pinochet
replaced Allende and brought free market economy to Chile
Balfour Declaration
supported a national Jewish homeland in Palestine
Zionists
advocates of a Jewish national state
1948
founding of the modern nation of Israel
Six-Day War (1967)
Israel preemptively attacked and defeated surrounding Arabic nations
Yom Kippur War (1973-1974)
Egypt and Syria invaded Israel’s territory but they were defeated
OPEC
formed to control supply and price of oil
Camp David Accords
peace treaty between Israel and Egypt negotiated by President Jimmy Carter; first Arabic/Jewish treaty in history
PLO
sought to establish a Palestinian state in Israel through force and terror
Yasser Arafat
leader of the PLO
Iran
Pro-American government under The Shah
Saddam Hussein
became dictator in 1979
Mahatma
Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
advocated civil disobedience against the British in a movement for independence
Ghana
the 1st black African nation south of the Saharah to gain independence
Kwame Nkrumah
Prime Minster and eventual dictator of Ghana
The Congo
Belgium’s largest African colony
Patrice Lumumba
pro-communist premier
Joseph mobutu
became dictator of the Congo; it was renamed Zaire in 1971
Nigeria
leader of the black African nations
Haile Selassie I
last of the original monarchs of Ethiopia
Apartheid
policy of racial segregation
Viet Cong
communist soldiers from North Vietnam who invaded the South (1957) and eventually the rest of Indochina
Ho Chi Minh Trail
a main North Vietnamese invasion route and supply trail
1965
1st American combat troops were sent to South Vietnam
Tet Offensive
large-scale Northern Vietnamese attack against 30 South Vietnamese cities and several US military installations
Republic of Congo
What was Congo called when freed
South Africa
Where did Apartheid take place
Ho Chi Minh
Who led Viet Cong
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
What did the American congress pass to allow America to join the conflict in Vietnam in 1965
William C. Westmoreland
Who led the American troops in South Vietnam
1975
What year did South Vietnam surrender
Ho Chi Minh City
What was Saigon renamed to
Edward Teller
developed the hydrogen bomb in 1952
Detente
French word that means a lessening or decrease of hostility between nations
Henry Kissinger
worked to include Communist China in the United nations (1971)
Leonid Brezhnev
became dictator of the S.U. in 1964
Helsinki Accords
allowed the Soviet Union more access to technology and weapons from the West
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
warned the West to not be too trusting of the Soviet Union’s decreased hostility
Sputnik 1
1st manmade satellite
Yuri Gagarin
1st man in space
Apollo 11
mission of the 1st moon landing
Nuclear blackmail
What did people around the world opposed that was used by the Soviet Union
Nuclear freeze
What movement was promoted in America
1969
What year was the first moon landing
Margaret Thatcher
conservative leader that became England’s 1st female Prime Minister (1979)
Ronald Reagan
became president of America in 1981
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