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headquarters of the U.N.

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New York

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representatives from all member nations

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general assembly

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five permanent & ten elected nations

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security council

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the Secretary General & his raids

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secretariat

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a “war of words” & ideology between the Soviet Union (Communist Bloc & America (Free World)

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Cold war

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executed for selling nuclear secrets to Russia

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Julius & Ethel Rosenberg

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director of Britain’s nuclear research program; supplied Russia with a detonator for the atomic bomb

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Klaus fuch

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an American senator, who led an investigation into supposed Communist spies in American government; it was unsuccessful

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Joseph Mcarthy

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Churchill’s description of Soviet control over its Eastern European Empire

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Iron Curtain

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Truman’s policy of containment against communism; financial aid of nations threatened by communism (Turkey & Greece)

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Truman’s doctrine

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Europe Recovery Program of economic assistance to rebuild Europe after WWII

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Marshall plan

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Leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin’s Death; wanted a “de-Stalinization” of Russia

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Nikita Khrushchev

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Communist dictator of Yugoslovia

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Marshall Tito

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built by the soviets in 1961 to enslave east Berlin

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Berlin Wall

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west Germany became a nation in what year

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1955

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socialist politics and a weak economy led to the decline of England’s Commonwealth

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Great Britain

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Became the president of France in 1958 and led them to prosperity

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Charles de Gaulle

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became the socialist president of France after de Gaulle’s death

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Francois mitterand

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conservative statesman of Italy before it fell to coalition governments and red brigade attacks

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Alcide de Gasperi

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successor of Francisco Franco in Spain: encouraged moderation and democratic rule

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Juan Carlos

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what year was the Berlin wall created

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1961

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placed a weapons embargo on nationalists Chinese

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George C. Marshall

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by what year had the Communist Chinese won the civil war

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1949

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Mao’s plan to increase industry: agriculture declined and millions were lost

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Five-Year plan

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Mo's 2nd Five-year plan to increase industry: 15 million people died and economy collapsed
Great Leap Forward
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Chinese attempt to purge all western influence with the Red Guards
Cultural Revolution
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ruled China after Mao Tse Tung's reign
Deng Xaioping
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supreme commander of UN/Us forces
Douglas Mcarthur
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where was McAruthur's amphibious invasion
inchan
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Douglas MacArthur's most famous quotation
"There can be no substitute for victory"
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dictator of Cuba from 1934-1959
Fulgencio Batista
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successfully overthrew Batista in 1959; became Communist dictator in Cuba
Fidel Castro
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The freedom fighters of Cuba were involved in what incident
Bay of Pigs
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Russia used Cuba as a base for nuclear missiles in 1962
Cuban Missile Crisis
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led a successful military overthrow of the government of Arg.
Juan Peron
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1st woman to head a govt. in the Western Hem.
Isabella Peron
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Communist president of Chile
Salvador Allende
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leader of the coup, assumed the office of president in chile
Augusto Pinochet
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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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the year of the founding of the nation of Israel
1948
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Israel preemptively attacked and defeated surrounding Arabic nations
Six-Day war
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Egypt and Syria invade Israel's territory but they were defeated
Yom Kippur War
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the name of the movement that got Fidel Castro to power in Cuba
July 26 movement
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formed to control supply and price of oil
OPEC
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peace meeting between Arabs and Jews that Jimmy Carter arranged
Camp David Accords
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goal was to establish a Palestinian state in Israel through force and terror
PLO
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Who overthrew the shah in iraq (1979)
Ayatollah Khomeini
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became the dictator of Iraq in 1979
Saddam Hussein
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advocated civil disobedience against the British government of India as a means of achieving their goals
Mahatma Gandhi
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India received its independence in what year
1947
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the 1st black African nation of South of the Sahara to gain independence
Ghana
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dictator of Ghanan
Kwame Nkrumah
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Belgium's largest African colony
Congo
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became dictator of the congo
Joseph Mobutu
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leader of the black African nations
Nigeria
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2 oldest African indepeneant states
Liberia and Ethiopia
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policy of racial segregation in S. Africa
Apartheid
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Communist soldiers from N. vietnam who invaded the south and eventually the rest of Indo china led by Ho Chi Minh
Viet Cong
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a main North Vietnamese invasion route and supply trail
Ho Chi Minh trail
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allowed America to join the conflict of Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin resolution
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what year did the first Americans land on Vietnam
1965
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who led the first group of American soldiers on Vietnam
William C. Westmoreland
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large scale North Vietnamese attack against 30 S. Vietnamese cities and several US military Instillations
Tet Offensive
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developed the hydrogen bomb in 1952
Edward Teller
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Known as the father of the hydrogen bomb
Edward Teller
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French word that means a lessening or decrease of hostility between nations
Detente
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worked to include Communist China in the UN
Henry Kissinger
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became dictator of he S.U. in 1964
Leonid Brezhnez
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allowed the S. Union more access to technology and weapons from the west
Helsinki Accords

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