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17 Restructuring the Postwar World, 1945-Present Flashcards

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United Nations

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world organization formed to prevent war

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Iron Curtain

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division between Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War; coined by Winston Churchill

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containment

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policy aimed at preventing the spread of communism

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Truman Doctrine

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policy of giving aid to countries threatened by communism

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Marshall Plan

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plan to give aid to European countries to help them recover from WWII

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Berlin Airlift

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flying of food and supplies into West Berlin by Britain and the US to break a Soviet blockade

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Cold War

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state of tension and mistrust between the US and the Soviet Union after WWII

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NATO

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military alliance including the US, Canada, and several countries in Western Europe

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Warsaw Pact

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military alliance between the Soviet Union and the countries of Eastern Europe

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brinkmanship

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willingness on the part of the superpowers to go the brink, or edge, of war

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Mao Zedong

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communist leader who defeated the Nationalists and led the People’s Republic of China

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Jiang Jieshi

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Nationalist leader who set up a new government in Taiwan

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Taiwan

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also known as the Republic of China (ROC)

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commune

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large farm setup in China in which many families work the land and live together

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Cultural Revolution

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uprising in China between 1966 and 1976 that aimed to establish a society of peasants and workers in which all were equal

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Red Guards

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young Chinese students who carried out the Cultural Revolution

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38th Parallel

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line that separated North Korea and South Korea

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Douglas MacArthur

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leader of the UN forces during the Korean War

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Seoul

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capital of South Korea

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Yalu River

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natural border between China and North Korea

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Ho Chi Minh

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Vietnamese nationalist who drove the French out of Vietnam and who led North Vietnam

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domino theory

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idea that the fall of one country to communism would lead other countries to become communist

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Ngo Dinh Diem

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leader of the anticommunist government of South Vietnam

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Vietcong

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communist rebels in South Vietnam who were supported by North Vietnam

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vietnamization

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Nixon’s plan for gradually withdrawing US troops from Vietnam and replacing them with South Vietnamese troops

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Khmer Rouge

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Communist rebels who set up a brutal government in Cambodia

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KGB

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Russian secret police

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Third World

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developing nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America

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nonaligned nations

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countries that did not take sides with either the US or the Soviet Union

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Fidel Castro

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communist leader of Cuba

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Nikita Khrushchev

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leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin

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John F. Kennedy

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president of the US from 1961 to 1963

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Anastazio Somoza

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Nicaraguan dictator

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Daniel Ortega

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leader of communist rebels in Nicaragua

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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

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Muslim leader who overthrew the Shah of Iran

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Imre Nagy

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Hungarian leader

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Alexander Dubček

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Czechoslovakian leader

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Lyndon Johnson

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president of the US from 1963 to 1969

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Richard M. Nixon

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president of the US from 1969 to 1974

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SALT

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talks to limit nuclear arms in the US and the Soviet Union

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Ronald Reagan

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president of the US from 1981 to 1989

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Mutually Assured Destruction

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the doctrine that a universally catastrophic nuclear war was not worth starting by either side

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glasnost

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“openness” instead of government secrecy

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perestroika

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“restructuring” of the Soviet political and economic system

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Joseph McCarthy

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persecuted alleged Communists in the US

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Red Scare

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hysteria surrounding the presence of Communists in the US

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