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Unit 16 - 10th
Unit 16: Cold War (required)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Berlin Wall (origin, cause) | built in the East German capital by the Soviet Union to keep communist citizens from leaving |
| Cold War (opposing groups, characteristics) | conflict between the US and the Soviet Union where neither side directly attacked each other because of their nuclear weapons |
| communism | economic system where the government owns all property and makes all economic decisions, ex: Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea |
| Cuban Missile Crisis (cause, result) | conflict that began when the Soviet Union placed atomic bombs in Cuba off the coast of the US, it ended when the Soviet decided to remove the atomic bombs |
| democracy | political system where the government is elected and ran by the citizens, ex: US, Britain |
| Great Leap Forward (origin, results) | program began by Mao Zedong in China that aimed to increase farm and industrial production |
| Iron Curtain | imaginary line between the democratic (US supported) Western Europe and the communist (Soviet supported) Eastern Europe |
| Killing Fields | mass graves created in Cambodia as a result of Pol Pot's genocide |
| market economy | another name for capitalism |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Soviet leader who encourage the reforms of glasnost and perestroika that would lead to the end of the Soviet Union |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | military alliance of the US and Western Europe |
| Pol Pot | Communist dictator of Cambodia who led a genocide of over 1 million citizens |
| Sputnik I | first satellite created by the Soviet Union |
| superpower | world power |