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Post War Conflicts
Vocabulary GCA WHII
| Term | Definition | Time Period |
|---|---|---|
| Post War Conflicts | Outcomes of World War II including war crimes trials, division of Europe, plans to rebuild Germany and Japan and the establishment of international cooperative oraganizations | Cold War |
| Cold War | period of time between 1945 and 1991 when the US and the USSR engaged in intense competition for control of the world | Cold War |
| United States | provided supplies to the Soviets to help stop Hitler | Cold War |
| U.S.S.R. | "While the Westen nations supplied resources, the Russians spilled blood" | Cold War |
| Uneasy Alliance | because Stalin and Hitler had a non-aggression pact early in the war, they had shared terrritories which made the Allies distrust USSR | Post War Conflicts |
| Capitalism vs command economy | Government has less hand in trade vs the government has complete control over the economy | Cold War |
| Democracy vs communism | government by the people vs a government run by one person | Cold War |
| The “Big Three” | Churhill, Roosevelt, and Stalin | Post War Conflicts |
| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of England during WWII | Post War Conflicts |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | President of US at the end of WWII | Post War Conflicts |
| Joseph Stalin | Dictator of Russia; had a non-aggression pact with Hitler, but turned to the Allied side | Post War Conflicts |
| Britain | constantly bombed during WWII, people had to hide in subways | Post War Conflicts |
| America | got involved because of Pearl Harbor | Post War Conflicts |
| France | not apart of Yalta but got a fourth of Germany | Post War Conflicts |
| Russia | became a major superpower along with the US | Post War Conflicts |
| Divided Germany | divided between Britian, France, US, and USSR | Post War Conflicts |
| West Germany | Britian, France, and US zones; Self-governed; democracy; capitolist economy | Post War Conflicts |
| East Germany | Russian dominated; puppet government; communist; command economy | Post War Conflicts |
| West Berlin | Capitol of West Germany | Post War Conflicts |
| East Berlin | Capitol of East Germany | Post War Conflicts |
| Satellite Nations | puppets controlled by the USSR | Post War Conflicts |
| Iron Curtain | Symbol of Cold War; Berlin Wall | Cold War |
| Japan | Occupied by American forces (General MacArthur); emerged with a dominant economy | Post War Conflicts |
| General MacArthur | the general who helped get Japan back to normal | Post War Conflicts |
| US Occupation of Japan | Led by General MacArthur; demilitarized; democratic government | Post War Conflicts |
| Nuremberg Trials | A series of military court trials held in Nuremburg, Germany by the Allied forces | Post War Conflicts |
| Economic Plans | Plans made by the US and USSR for rebuilding European economies | Post War Conflicts |
| Marshall Plan | The US economic plan; loans money with interest; country must be democratic; must spend money on US goods | Post War Conflicts |
| Molotov Plan | USSR economic plan; loan money with interest; country must be communist; must spend money on USSR goods | Post War Conflicts |
| Truman Doctrine | Offers help to anti-communist countries; start of Cold War | Post War Conflicts |
| Harry Truman | President of the US; comes up with the Truman Doctrine | Post War Conflicts |
| Containment Policy | policy to contain Communist expansion | Cold War |
| North Atlantic treaty Organization (NATO) | political organization including Western Europe, US, and Canada | Cold War |
| Warsaw Pact | political organization including USSR and their satalite nations | Cold War |
| Space Race | competition between the US and the USSR for supremacy in space exploration | Cold War |
| Sputnik | First satellite in space; built by the Russians | Cold War |
| Berlin Wall | Built to seperate East and West Berlin; The Iron Curtian | Cold War |
| Arms Race | competition to be the top military superpower | Cold War |
| Espionage | spying on another country | Cold War |
| Deterrence | policy to increase arms to deter the enemy from using their weapons | Cold War |
| United Nations (UN) | governmental organization created to aviod future global wars through international law and security | Cold War |
| General Assembly | everyone in the UN; all member have one vote; recomend actions to the Security Council | Cold War |
| Security Council | part of the UN. Can enforce sanctions; China, France, England, US, and Russia are the permenant members; 10 additional seats which rotate every 2 years but have no veto power | Cold War |
| Chinese Civil War | Nationalists vs communists for control of China | Chinese Revolution |
| Chaing Kai-Shek | Nationalist leader of Chinese Civil War | Chinese Revolution |
| Mao Zedong | Communist leader and victor of Chinese Civil War | Chinese Revolution |
| Taiwan | Chaing Kai-Shek and nationalists retreat to here after Chinese Revolution | Chinese Revolution |
| Deng Xiaping | Next Chinese communist leader after Mao | Chinese Revolution |
| Four Modernizations | Goals to strengthen the feilds of agriculture industry, national defense, science and technology in China | Chinese Revolution |
| Korean War | Between North and South Korea | Korean War |
| 38th Parallel | Border between North and South Korea | Korean War |
| Stalemate | Neither side moves or advances | Korean War |
| Vietnam War | War between North and South Vietnam | Vietnam War |
| 17th Parallel | the place where Vietnam was divided | Vietnam War |
| Ho Chi Minh | Vietnamese communist leader of the North | Vietnam War |
| Domino Theory | one country falls to communism, then it's neighbors will too | Vietnam War |
| Tet Offensive | North Vietnam launches suprise attack on the Tet holiday | Vietnam War |
| Agent Orange | Chemical Warfare; causes major health problems | Vietnam War |
| Kent State | anti-war protest gone wrong at a college campus | Vietnam War |
| Vietnamization | Withdrawal of US troops and replaceming them with Vietnamese troops | Vietnam War |
| Nixon | President of the US during VietnamizatLion; he came up with the plan | Vietnam War |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | Missiles from the USSR went into Cuba, but Kennedy blockaded Cuba and ordered the USSR to take them back and the USSR backed down | Cold War |
| Fidel Castro | Led a communist revolution in Cuba | Cold War |
| Nikita Khrushchev | Dictator of USSR during Cuban Missile Crisis | Cold War |
| John F. Kennedy | President of the US during Cuban Missile Crisis | Cold War |
| Bay of Pigs | a failed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro | Cold War |
| Brinkmanship | Right on the edge of nuclear war | Cold War |
| Collapse of Soviet Union | satellite nations want to become independant; economic inefficiancy; increasing Soviet military exenses to compete with the US lead to... | Cold War |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Last president of the USSR | Cold War |
| “glasnost” | openness | Cold War |
| “perestroika” | economic restructuring | Cold War |
| Fall of Berlin Wall | symbolizes the collapse of the Soviet Union | Cold War |
| Boris Yeltsin | 1st elected president of the USSR | Cold War |
| Ronald Reagan | Increased military pressure on the USSR; "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" | Cold War |
| Star Wars | Strategic Defense Initiative | Cold War |
| Margaret Thatcher | Britian's "Iron Lady" | Cold War |
| “Iron Lady” | Margaret Thatcher | Cold War |
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