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Unit 7 After WWII
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Attrition | War tactic where one side attempts to win simply by wearing down the enemy through tons of small attacks which gradually lead to mass casualties |
| Bay of Pigs | United States trained Anti-Castro Cuban soldiers to overthrow Fidel Castro, but the invasion was a failure resulting in mass casualties |
| Berlin Airlift | Soviets tried to block aid coming into the Allied controlled areas of a German city, so they began dropping supplies from planes for over a year |
| Containment | Stop the spread of communism outside of those areas already controlled by the Soviet Union |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | For days, the Soviet Union and the United States sat with nuclear weapons pointed at each other over Soviet nuclear sites in Cuba. |
| Détente | Era in the 1970’s when the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to reduce their nuclear weapons |
| Domino Theory | West feared that as 1 country became communist, it would only be a matter of time before others around would also become communist |
| Ethnic Cleansing | The forcible removal of a particular group of people with little regard for their well-being, often leading to mass casualties |
| Glasnost and Perestroika | Soviet policy of the 1980’s ending censorship and opening up the economy to more private businesses |
| Ho Chi Minh | Communist leader of North Vietnam |
| Iron Curtain | Churchill’s nickname for the boundary between the democratic nations of Western Europe and the Communist Eastern European nations |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | United States increases its involvement in Vietnam because the North Vietnamese “allegedly” suck a U.S. Navy ship |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | U.S. president during the Vietnam War and The Civil Rights Movement |
| Kim Il-Sung | Communist leader of North Korea during the Korean War |
| Korean War | First massive United Nations Peace Keeping Mission spearheaded by the United States. |
| Nelson Mandela | First democratically elected president of South Africa in free multi-racial elections |
| Mao-Zedong | First communist dictator of China |
| Marshall Plan | United States sent massive aid to Western Europe to build their economy before this part of Europe also fell to communism |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization | treaty between the USA and Western Europe to protect each other if one is attacked |
| Palestinians | Muslims living within the country Israel |
| Sputnik | Name of the Russian satellite that was the first satellite in space |
| Tet Offensive | The North Vietnamese began a long string of attacks on US and South Vietnamese targets; electrified anti-war movement in USA. |
| Truman Doctrine | US’s Policy towards communism which stated that we would intervene in any area where the threat for the spread of communism may occur |
| Warsaw Pact | A treaty between the Soviet Union and its communist European nation to create a buffer between the Soviet Union and hostile European nations. |
| Vietnam War | United States unsuccessfully tried to help the South avoid take over by the communist leader Ho Chi Minh |
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