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Chapter 33 Flashcards

1
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Conference to determine what would happen in Europe after world war II.

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Yalta

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2
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This organization was supposed to achieve victory for the Allies during World War II and then keep world peace afterwards.

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United Nations

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3
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This allied country was nearly completely destroyed following world war II and was determined to punish Germany to avoid being invaded ever again.

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Soviet Union

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4
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This line divided Europe between democracy and communism after World War II.

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Iron Curtain

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5
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He made a speech explaining how Europe was divided between democracy and communism in 1946.

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Churchill

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6
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US policy to stop the spread of communism in Europe.

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Containment

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7
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He pledged to support the democratic governments in the countries of Greece and Turkey in 1947.

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Truman

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8
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The ______ Plan was to help European countries avoid communism by supplying money for rebuilding after world war II.

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Marshall

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9
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The Berlin _____ was to resist the starvation of Berlin in 1948-1949 by the communists.

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Airlift

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10
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This was organized to fight a war in western Europe.

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NATO

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11
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The _____ Pact was to protect eastern Europe from invasion.

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Warsaw

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12
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The _____ was developed to be bigger and more powerful than the atomic bomb.

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H bomb

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13
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This man led the United States policy of brinkmanship during the 1950s.

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Dulles

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14
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This was the first successful space satellite.

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Sputnik

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15
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The U-2 incident was a ____ sponsored spy plane that was shot out the sky in May 1960.

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CIA

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16
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These were rockets developed to be launched with nuclear payloads from one continent to another.

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ICBM

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17
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He (first and last name) was the communist leader in China.

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Mao Zedong

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18
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Chiang Kai-shek led ______ China.

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Nationalist

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19
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He was the peaceful leader of Tibet who fled to India when China became communist.

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Dalai Lama

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20
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These were farms in China that contained between 200-300 families working as a unit.

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Collectives

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21
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These were huge farming complexes supporting over 25,000 people in Communist China.

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Communes

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22
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These were high school and college students organized in China to learn revolution by making revolution.

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Red guards

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23
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The _____ targeted intellectuals who had to “purify” themselves by doing hard labor in remote villages in China in the 1960s.

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Cultural

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24
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The _____ separated North and South Korea.

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38th parallel

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25
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Which country assisted North Korea during the Korean War.

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China

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26
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Nationalist China occupied the island of _____.

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Taiwan

27
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General _____ commanded the United Nations forces in Korea in 1950.

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MacArthur

28
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This river separated North Korea and China.

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Yalu

29
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MacArthur was fired by Harry Truman when he threatened to use the ____ on China.

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Atomic

30
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During the 1980s and 1990s, _____ had one of the highest economic growth rates in the world.

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South Korea

31
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He was the leader of communist Vietnam. (full name)

A

Ho chi minh

32
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This theory said that Southeast Asian nations would fall one by one to communism.

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Domino

33
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He was the anti-communist leader in South Vietnam in 1963.

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Diem

34
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South Vietnamese communists were called ____.

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Vietcong

35
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The Ho Chi Minh _____ was the communist supply route that went through Laos and Cambodia before entering Vietnam from the west.

A

Trail

36
Q

The Gulf of ______ incident led to wide scale US involvement in Vietnam in 1964.

A

Tonkin

37
Q

He led the US policy of Vietnamization in 1969 in an attempt to withdraw US soldiers from the conflict.

A

Nixon

38
Q

The ______ were communist Cambodians led by Pol Pot that slaughtered over two million people in the 1970s-1980s.

A

Khmer Rouge

39
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Many _____ (two words) attempted to escape Vietnam and come illegally to America over the Pacific Ocean in the 1970s.

A

boat people

40
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The _____ (two words) consisted of developing nations, often newly independent, who were not aligned with either superpower

A

third world

41
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Soviet Spy agency during the Cold War.

A

KGB

42
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American Spy agency during the Cold War.

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CIA

43
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Communist leader in Cuba in the 1950s-2010s.

A

Castro

44
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This was a US assisted invasion of Cuba in 1961.

A

Bay of Pigs

45
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A Naval _____ was used by the US to stop Soviet missiles from being deployed in Cuba in October 1962.

A

Blockade

46
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Communist Nicaraguan leader.

A

Ortega

47
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Anti-communist dictator of Nicaragua.

A

Somoza

48
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Iranian leader in the 1940s-1970s.

A

Pahlavi

49
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Ayahollah Khomeini was the Islamic leader in ____ during the 1979 revolution.

A

Iran

50
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American _____ were taken in 1979 in Iran and held for over a year.

A

Hostages

51
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Iran and _____ fought a long-lasting war in the 1980s.

A

Iraq

52
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US president who instituted a military draft registration process following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

A

Carter

53
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He withdrew Soviet military forces from Afghanistan in 1989.

A

Gorbachev

54
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Khrushchev became Soviet leader following _____ death in 1953.

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Stalin

55
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This eastern European nation attempted anti-communist revolution failed in 1956.

A

Hungary

56
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This eastern European nation attempted an anti-communist revolution but failed in 1968.

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Czechoslovakia

57
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The _____ and Soviet cooperation began failing in the 1950s when the Soviets stopped technical economic aid.

A

China

58
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He was US president during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

A

Kennedy

59
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Nixon attempted lessening Col War tensions with the policy of ____.

A

Détente

60
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He was the first president to visit communist China in 1972.

A

Nixon

61
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This was to limit the levels of the number of intercontinental ballistic and submarine-launched missiles each country could have.

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SALT

62
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US President that increase defense spending that triggered a collapse of the Soviet system.

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Reagan

63
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These were Anti-communist Nicaragua freedom fighters supported by President Reagan in 1983.

A

Contras

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