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the cold war--ch26 (after quiz 1) Flashcards

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Communist Chinese leader

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Mao Tse-tung

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Nationalist chinese leader

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Chiang Kai-Shek

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date war broke out between communists and nationalists of china

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1927

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imposed an arms embargo on the Nationalists in 1945

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George C. Marshall

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date of the Berlin wall

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1961

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date the Communist had won

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1949

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date Communists establish The People’s Republic of China

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October 1, 1949

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Mao Tse-Tung’s plan to increase industry; agriculture declines and millions were lost

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Five-Year Plan

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Mao Tse-Tung’s second five year plan to increase industry; 15 million people died and the economy collapsed

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Great Leap Forward

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Chinese attempt to purge all Western Influence with the use of the Red Guards

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Cultural Revolution (1966)

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Cultural Revolution was a Chinese attempt to purge all Western Influence with the use of the ________

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Red Guards

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Mao’s reign of terror killed approximately ______ people (worst massacre in World History)

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40 million

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ruled China after Mao Tse-Tung

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Deng Xiaoping

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14
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Korea is divided at the ___ _______

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38th parallel

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Communist; supported by Russia (Kim II Sung)

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North Korea
leader: Kim II Sung

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Free; supported by America (Syngman Rhee)

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South Korea
leader: Syngman Rhee

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17
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North Korea invaded South Korea in ____

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1950

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18
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supreme commander of UN/US forces

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Douglas MacArthur

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19
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North Korea pushed the UN/US forces back to the _____ Peninsula

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Pusan

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20
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Douglas MacArthur planned a surprise amphibious invasion of _____

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Inchon

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possibly unimportant info: By the end of 1950, MacArthur recovered the lost territory and invaded the North

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By the end of 1950, MacArthur recovered the lost territory and invaded the North

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China reinforced the losing North Koreans and MacArthur planned _____ war against China

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full-scale

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23
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Truman removed ______ from command in ____ to prevent war with china

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MacArthur
1951

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After Stalin died in ____, the South Union pushed North Korea to make peace

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1953

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Douglas MacArthur's most famous quote
“There can be no substitute for victory.”
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dictator of Cuba
Fulgencio Batista (from 1934-1959)
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successfully overthrew Batista in 1959; became *communist* dictator in Cuba
Fidel Castro
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In 1691, President Kennedy promised aerial support to Cuban freedom fighters
Bay of Pigs Incident Kennedy did not come through and the invasion failed
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promised aerial support to Cuban freedom fighters (Bay of Pigs Incident)
Kennedy
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Russia used Cuba as a base for nuclear missiles in 1962
Cuban Missile Crisis
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Communist revolutionaries of Nicaragua
Sandinistas
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overthrew the government of Argentina and established tyrannical rule
Juan Peron
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first woman to head a government in the Western Hemisphere
Isabel Peron
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communist president of Chile
Salvador Allende
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brought free market economy to Chile
Augusto Pinochet (replaced Allende)
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supported a national Jewish homeland in Palestine
Balfour Declaration
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advocates of a Jewish national state
Zionists
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founding of the modern nation of Israel
1948
39
Israel preemptively attacked and defeated surrounding Arabic nations
Six-Day War
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Egypt and Syria invaded Israel’s territory but they were defeated
Yom Kippur War (Yom Kippur was their holiday)
41
president during bay of pigs
JFK
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formed to control supply and price of oil
OPEC (organization of petroleum exporting countries)
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first Arabic/Jewish treaty in history; peace treaty between Israel and Egypt negotiated by president Jimmy Carter
Camp David Accords (1978)
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sought to establish a Palestinian state in Israel through force and terror
PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization)
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leader of the PLO
Yassir Arafat
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overthrew Pro-American government under *The Shah* (1979)
Ayatolla Khomeini
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Khomeini’s rebellion led to the __________
Iranian Hostage Crisis
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became dictator of Iraq in 1979
Saddam Hussein
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advocated civil disobedience against the British in a movement for independence
Mahatma Ghandi
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India was given Independence from Britain in ____
1947
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After WWII, fell under the influence of Communism assisted by Soviet and Cuban troops.
Africa
52
first black african nation south of the sahara to gain independence
Ghana
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Prime Minister and eventual dictator of Ghana
Kwame Nkrumah
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Belgium’s largest African colony
The Congo
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the Congo was Freed and named "_____________"
The Republic of the Congo
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became dictator of the Congo
Joseph Mobutu
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Joseph Mobutu renamed the Congo ____ in 1971
Zaire
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leader of the black African nations
Nigeria
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two oldest African independent states
Liberia and Ethiopia
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last of the original monarchs of Ethiopia
Haile Selassie I
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policy of racial segregation in South Africa
Apartheid
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after losing the Chinese civil war, The nationalists were forced to flee to ____
Taiwan
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After the Indochina War, Vietnam split into free (South) and Communists (North( sections along the ___ parallel (not on quiz)
17th (not on quiz)
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communist soldiers from North Vietnam who invaded the South and eventually the rest of indochina led by Ho Chi Minh(not on quiz)
Viet Cong (not on quiz)
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led indochina(not on quiz)
Ho Chi Minh(not on quiz)
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a main North Vietnamese invasion route and supply trail(not on quiz)
Ho Chi Minh Trail(not on quiz)
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the Viet Cong supposedly attacked two american naval ships(not on quiz)
Gulf of Tonkin Incident(not on quiz)
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allowed America to join the conflict in Vietnam(not on quiz)
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution(not on quiz)
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date that first American combat troops were sent to South Vietnam led by William C. Westmoreland(not on quiz)
1965(not on quiz)
70
led first American combat troops sent to South Vietnam(not on quiz)
William C. Westmoreland(not on quiz)
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large-scale Northern Vietnamese cities and several US military installations(not on quiz)
Tet Offensive(not on quiz)
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Americans were largely against the Vietnam War; America withdrew in 1973 as a result and a ____ was signed(not on quiz)
ceasefire(not on quiz)

10th grade history (49 decks)

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