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Vocab #9 World Hisot

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Mao -Leader of Chinese communist party
Jiang Jieshi- leader of Chinese national party
Commune- huge collective farms
Red Guards- communist militia units formed by high school people
Cultural revolution- Chinese uprising led by the red guards
Taiwan- island of SE coast of China
Great Leap Forward- Mao Zedong’s economy plan for China it failed
Communism- a way of organizing a society in which the gov. owns the things to make and transport products
Policy of Containment- US policy developed by president Truman
NATO- Atlantic treaty organization- organization of countries that agreed to provide military support to each other. U.S->Canada->Europe
Truman Doctrine- North Atlantic treaty organization US, western Europe and Canada
Warsaw Pact- Treaty between the USSR, East Germany, Czechoslokavia, Poland
Space Race- race between US and USSR during cold war
Nonaligned Nations- countries that didn’t take a side in a cold war
Espionage spying
Propaganda- one side information to persude people something is true
Iron Curtain- phase that represents the division in Europe
United Nations- international organization designed to protect members
Destalinization- policy
Mikhail Gorbachev- last ruler or USSR
Glasnost- policy of Gorbachev in the USSR- openness
Perestroika- policy of Gorbachev is USSR- economic resturing
Surrogate Wars- Smalled wars that take place instead of large wars
Domino Theory- If one country falls for Communism everyone will
Fidel Castro- Communist leader of Cuba
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