Cold War Flashcards
Mao Zedong
Former President of the People’s Republic of China
Communist
Great Leap Forward
Mao implemented a program in 1958 to organize all farms into collectives
Fail, millions of people died
Cultural Revolution
Mao urging students to quit school and wage war on anyone who oppressed communism
Red Guards
Students organized into an army
Attacked, imprisoned, and killed those suspected that don’t agree with Mao
Four Modernizations Programs
Progress in agriculture, industry, defense, and science
Tiananmen Square Incident
10,000 chinese students protest china
Gov. sent tanks and soldiers to kill hundreds of innocent people
Deng Xiaoping
New Chinese leader after Enlai
38th parallel
The 38th parallel north formed the border between North and South Korea prior to the Korean War
17th parallel
practical political boundary between North and South Vietnam.
stalemate
a situation in which further action or progress by opposing or competing parties seems impossible.
Agent Orange
Bum out, jungle cover
dangerous side effects on civilians like birth defects
Douglas McArthur
commander of the 15 UN forces
demilitarized zone
an area, agreed upon between the parties to an armed conflict, which cannot be occupied or used for military purposes by any party to the conflict
Ho Chi Minh
Formed a new guerilla army including some south Vietnamese called the Vietcong
Led North
Vietcong
a member of the communist guerrilla movement in Vietnam that fought the South Vietnamese government forces
Gulf of Tonkin
Johnson claims US destroyers were fired apon, US thinks its an easy war
Us were ambushed, booby trapped, and Vietcong used guerilla tactics to blend in with civillians
Vietnamization
Official pullout of American soldiers from Vietnam in 1969
Domino Theory
if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect
Attrition
US fought a war of attrition
the action or process of gradually reducing the strength or effectiveness of someone or something
Containment
aimed at stopping the spread of Communism and keeping it “contained” and isolated within its current borders of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
