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Chapter 17 MFM Flashcards

1
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Who went to the Yalta Conference?

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US–FDR
Britain–Churchill
Soviets–Stalin

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What did they do at the Yalta?

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  1. Divide Germany and Berlin into 4 zones of occupations
  2. Hold Free elections
  3. Soviets want Reparations from Germans
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What was the United Nations originally made up of?

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48 countries

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what is it made up of now?

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A security counsel, 11 seats, 5 are permanent

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What were the 4 zones of occupation at the Yalta?

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Germany, US, France, and britain

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Which countries were permanent at the Un

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Us, Britain, France, Soviet and China

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Who was at the United Nations at Potsdam

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US–Truman
Brit–Churchill
Soviet–Stalin

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What happened at Potsdam with truman and stalin>

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Truman wasnt known because he was new and he calls Stalin out on not holding election

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Iron Curtain

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Symbolic division between communist and non communist countries

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Who were Satellite nations

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Poland, Germany, Czech, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Albania

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Buffer zone

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land between curtain and soviet union

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12
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Truman Doctrine

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gave his speech on containment

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Marshall Plan

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12.5 billion dollars in aid which was used to help containment

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14
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what happened with the berlin airlift?

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Now it is divided into two zones and one is the US
Does not like that there is one little bubble of freedom, and stalin wants to cut the one road off to make them turn communism

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What did we do to help during the berlin airlift?

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Dropped food and supplies into Berlin for 11 months

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16
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How did the Berlin airlift end?

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We had bomb carriers in England but we bluffed because we didn’t actually have any bombs

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17
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Why did Stalin make the berlin wall??

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To cut off the brain dran which was how people were getting free

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War of Words; War of political ideologies; no real combat

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Cold War

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NATO

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization

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Warsaw Pact

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All of Soviets Satellite Nations

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Brinkmanship

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brink of war

willingness of a country to go all the way up to the brink of war and wait for the other man to start it

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ICBM

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international ballistic Missal

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23
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Who launched the first thing into space

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Soviets; Sputnik

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What was our special plane and what does it do?

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U2 and it flew above the radar, so we put cameras in the belly and took pictures

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25
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Who was the pilot of our spy plane?

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Powers

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26
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Who led the communists

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Zedong

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27
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Who led the nationalists?

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Jieshi (People’s Republic of China) in Taiwan

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28
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Which governments did we choose?

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US–People’s Republic of China

Stalin picked communists

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29
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  • land reforms
  • follows soviet union
  • plans great leap forward
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Zedong

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Great Leap Forward

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Zedong makes big farms called communes and makes people work on them. fails

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31
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What did Zedong want?

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he wanted them to go back to strict communist ways

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32
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what did Zedong form and what was it made of?

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Made Red Guard–those who enforced communist ways

very violent

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33
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What did Zedong do about his red guard

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decided it was too violent and so he cuts it off and steps down

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34
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38th Parallel

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Line between North Korea and South Korea

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35
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Why did MacArthur get fired?

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He wanted a quick end to South Korea vs. North Korea so he asked Truman for a bomb and he said no so he goes and asks congress and truman go tmad so he was fired

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36
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How did the North vs. South end?

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Signed an armistance saying we have no peace but we wont fight anymore

37
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What did Minh start?

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Independence movement called Vietminh League

38
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What was the goal of the Vietminh league?

A

Get french out

39
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What happened when the French felt threatened?

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Ordered Ho Chi to be arrested so he flees Vietnam

40
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Domino Theory

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17th Parallel

If one country is taken over by communists, the other countries will be too

41
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What was decided at the conference to discuss Vietnam?

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Vietnam will be divided into 17th Parallel
Ho gets north
US picks gov for South

42
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Who did the US pick to lead the South of Vietnam?

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Diem, who is an awful leader and life is getting worse. Minh is a great leader, but unfortunately communist

43
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What rebel group starts in South Vietnam

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Vietcong, because they want Minh in charge

44
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What happens since South Vietnam want Ho in charge?

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North and South Vietnam go to war, and the US is helping in the South’s side

45
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When did US troops get to go fight?

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When Johnson lied about the North firing on us

46
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Who wanted to win?

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Well the South wanted to lose so Minh would be their ruler

47
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Poor Mans War

A

North vs. South still
drafted ment that couldnt afford a university
Congress protecting the upper class

48
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What did Nixon come up with?

A

Vietnamization
promise to pull out our own guys so that South Vietnam will be fighting for themselves, but when we pulled out HO Chi took over

49
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What happened to Cambodia?

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Mean communists took over, and Minh saw that and saw how bad they were and so he helped Cambodia even though Minh is a communist too. Minh takes over Cambodia

50
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1st World Country

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US and Allies

51
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2nd World Country

A

Soviet and their allies

52
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3rd World Country

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Developing countries that we are both trying to gain

53
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Not aligned countries

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neutral and dont want anything to do with us

54
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Castro

A

took over Cuba

FDR didn’t like him because he was a strict communist

55
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What did FDR do to Castro?

A

trained a team and sent them to take over.
Bay of Pigs
Failed

56
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Why did the Cuban Missal Crisis happen?

A

Soviets had weapons and we said they couldnt hve them

57
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What did we do about them ignoring our demand for the missals out of Cuba?

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Put a quarantine around Cuba to not let any more missals go in

58
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We were gearing up for war and 4 hours before hand we made a deal…

A

if they put down their missals, we will never invade them

59
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3 Iran leaders

A

Pahlavi
Mossadeq
Khomeini

60
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Pahlavi

A

we liked him, he had western ideas so we made sure he stayed in power, but the Irans didnt like him BECAUSE he had western ideas

61
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Mossadeq

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  • hated Pahlavi

- took control of Brit’s oil company which scared Pahlavi so they fleed Iran

62
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What happened when Pahlavi ran away?

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The US went and got him back and that pissed off the Iran’s because they had finally gotten rid of him

63
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Khomeini

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leader of faith

in exile but he’s still a leader with encouraging words and watned pahlavi overthrown

64
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What pissed off the Irans between Pahlavi and the US?

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Pahlavi was sick so he went for secret treatments in the US, and the Iran found out and wanted him to go home to be put on trial

65
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What did Iran do because of the Pahlavi sick thing?

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Held hostages in the US embassy in Iran and Carter was president

66
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When did they release the hostages and why?

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They released them when Reagan was inaugurated because they blamed it on carter

67
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Iran vs. Iraq

A

Soviets helped IRan

we helped both

68
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Why did we help both?

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Because we wanted neither to win and we wanted the balance of power to stay the same

69
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Who did United Nations recognize as the winner?

A

neither

70
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What was the name of the 2nd rebel group?

A

Mujahideen

71
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Who is the new soviet ruler after Stalin and what did he do?

A

Khrufchev

destalinization

72
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New leader of Hungary and what did he do?

A

Nagy, wanted to pull away from the Soviet Union

73
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What was the problem with Nagy wanting to pull away?

A

Khrufchev wouldnt have it, so he sent troops to Hungary to force them not to pull away, and publicly killed their leader (Nagy) on the spot

74
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Who came after Nagy? (Hungary0

A

Brezhnev–hardcore communist

75
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New Czech Leader

A

Duvcek

76
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What did Duvcek do?

A

Loosened up laws and made a happy movement–Prague Movement

77
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Prague Movement

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Growth of Good and new ideas

78
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What did Brezhnev do about it>

A

Destroyed all of ti

79
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Brezhnev Doctrine

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He has the right to force Satellite nations to be communist

80
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Why did Mao Zedong stop following the Soviet Union?

A

The Soviets were trying to share nuclear secrets with them and they didn’t feel comfortable with that

81
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Were the soviets concerned about fighting China?

A

Yes even though they were both communist

82
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What did Nixon make?

A

SALT

83
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Salt?

A

Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty

84
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What did SALT do?

A

Banned arms, we agreed to limit arms, and this is a big deal because we are finally friends with soviets

85
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International Peace Treaty

A

Helsinki Accords

86
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What happened during the International Peace Treaty?

A

Reagan came in and makes SDI

87
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SDI

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Strategic Defense Initiative

88
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Strategic Defense Initiative

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Missil defense system–future–wants to put a satellite that will shoot down a missil coming toward us from space

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