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