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Yalta conference

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Conference with Winston Churchill, Franklin D Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin in 1945

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Iron Curtain

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Divide east and west Germany (east being USSR and west being USA)

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Superpowers

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USSR and USA

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Containment

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Blocking of Soviet influence in preventing the expansion of communism

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Truman doctrine

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Congress authorized 400 million to aid Greece and turkey

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Marshall plan

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George Marshall said that the US should give aid to any European nations-Congress authorized $12.5 billion after USSR seized Czechoslovakia

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Berlin Airlift

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Stolen seized Soviet controlled portion of Berlin cut off all the highway, water, and rail lines to story about the city

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NATO

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North Atlantic treaty organization, created with tenured pi nations Canada and the US as a defensive military

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Warsaw Pact

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USSR created because they saw NATO as a threat USSR in Poland and east Germany Czechoslovakia hungry Romania and Bulgaria and Albania

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Brinkmanship

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Willing us to go to the brank/edge of war

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U-2incident

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Shooting down a US spy plane in capture of a pilot Gary Powers by USSR

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Mao Zedong

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Leader of red army

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Space race

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Race between USSR in US to get a man to the moon

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United Nations

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50 countries organize to protect members against aggression

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Jiang jieshi

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Leader of the nationalist forces

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Sputnik one

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So it you can put the first on man satellite in space

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Yuri Garin

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Astronaut in Russia – first human in space/orbit around earth

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Alan Shepard

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First Americans travel to space

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Dalai Lama

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Living Buddha – responsible for governing Tibet before China took it over

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Communes

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Large collective farms

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Cultural revolution

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Go to establish a society of peasants and workers that are all equal

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38th parallel

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Latitude line across is Korea in separates north and South Korea

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Douglas MacArthur

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Leader of the United Nations forces into stopped it so we invasion of Korea

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Ho Chi Minh

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Leader of communist forces in Vietnam

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Sandinistas

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Who the USSR supported in the Nicaragua war Civil War

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Daniel Ortega

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Leader of the Sandinistas

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Iran’s shah

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Iran’s leader

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Ayatollah Khomeini

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Hated the USA

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Mujahideen

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Afghan rebels supplied with American weapons/holy Warriors

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Desalinization 

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Removing the memory of Joseph Stalin from the Soviet union

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Leonid Brezhnev 

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 replaced Khrushchev, quickly adopted repressive domestic

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LBJ

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Escalated US involvement in Vietnam War took over presidency when JFK died

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detente

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US policy of listening Cold War tension under rich Nixon

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Tricky dick

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President Richard Nixon’s nickname

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SALT

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Strategic arms limitation treaty

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Regan

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President – abandon the Détente since he was a strong anti-communist

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Star Wars missile defense system

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Protect US from enemy missiles – we thought we had tech from Star Wars to protect us but we didn’t

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Dominoes Theory

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President Eisenhower – said if one nation fall to communism the neighbors will fall to the mall

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Ngo Dinh diem

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South Vietnamese leader of the anti-communist who were supported by both the French and the US

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Viet Cong

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Communist guerrillas; many Vietcong were South Vietnamese who hated Ngo dinh Diem

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Vietnamization

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Allowed US troops to gradually pull out

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Khmer rouge

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Communist rebels, set up brutal communist government under the leadership of pol pot

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Pol pot

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Political leader – communist Khmer Rouge Cambodia 

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Third World

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Not with the United States or USSR and poor

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Nonaligned nations

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Independent countries (Switzerland)

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Fidel Castro

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Young lawyer, led to the Cuban revolution

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Nikita Khrushchev 

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Becomes a leader of Soviet Union after stolen dies in 1953

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JFK

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1962 presidents assassinated in 1963

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Why were the Soviets fighting the mujahideen in Afghanistan

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To force Soviet style socialism on Afghanistan

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What are the idea of Detente eventually fail

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The US congress refused to sign SALT ll 

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Explain what to events trigger the breakdown of brinkmanship 

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  1. U-2 spy plane incident
  2. Cuban muzzle crisis
  3. Vietnam war 
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What was the main requirement for the United States to support a foreign leader 

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Anti-communism

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How did the US respond to Castro’s receiving aid from the Soviets

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CIA executed Bay of Pigs invasion – basically trying to overthrow Castro

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Explain why the Cuban missile crisis was something the US had act aggressively and quickly over

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Nuclear war could’ve broken out, there were too many nukes at the Cuban border

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Has Castro’s agreement with the Soviets been positive or negative for Cuba

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Negative because it completely trashed their economy

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What is the relief of Ayatollah khomeinis politics

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Hates the USA

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What is a tension between China and India in the early 1960s

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Can you give support to Tibetan people especially the Dalai Lama 

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What did the Algerian reform law of 1950 give Mao Zedong the power to do

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Give him power to get back land peasants

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Why was Douglas MacArthur fired as leader of the United Nations forces in Korea

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He was fired because he tried to go over president Truman’s head and went to Congress to try and use nuclear weapons

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Why did the US I have a difficult time in the Vietnam war

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They fought an unfamiliar jungle terrain and South Vietnamese gov’t wasn’t popular

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Explain the difference between 1st worlds second world and Third World country

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1st:us and it’s Allies
2nd-communist countries – USSR and their allies
3. Not allies with either poor

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Explain the origins of the Cold War from both perspectives (USA and ussr)

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US: was upset about 1939 nonaggression pact between Germany and USSR

USSR: upset about believing that the allies waited too long to invade France during World War II

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Name five permanent members of the original United Nations Security Council

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  • Great Britain
  • USA
  • France
  • Union of Soviet Socialist republics
  •  China
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What is Stalin to reply, “ capitalism and communism could not exist in the same world.”

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Harry Truman pushed for the free elections in Eastern Europe

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Name at least two events with symbolize the United States theory of containment

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  1. Marshall plan
  2. Truman doctrine
  3. Berlin airlift
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Which countries benefited from the Truman doctrine

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Greece and turkey

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What type of alliance was NATO

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Defensive military alliance

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Who is Responsible for the idea of brinkmanship

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John Foster Dulles

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