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Chavez WH 33 Vocab
Ch 33
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| United Nations | World organization formed to prevent war |
| Iron Curtain | Division between Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War |
| Containment | Policy aimed at preventing the spread of communism |
| Truman Doctrine | Policy of giving aid to countries threatened by communism |
| Marshall Plan | Plan to give aid to European countries to help them recover from the war |
| Cold War | State of tension and mistrust between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II |
| NATO | Military alliance including the United States, Canada, and several countries of Eastern Europe |
| Warsaw Pact | Military alliance between the Soviet Union and the countries of Eastern Europe |
| Brinkmanship | Willingness on the part of the superpower to go to the brink, or edge, of war |
| Mao Zedong | Communist leader who defeated the Nationalists and led the People's Republic of China |
| Jiang Jieshi | Nationalist leader who set up a new government in Taiwan |
| Commune | Large farm setup in China in which many families work the land and live together |
| Red Guards | Young Chinese students who carried out the Cultural Revolution |
| Cultural Revolution | Uprising in China between 1966 and 1976 that aimed to establish a society of peasants and workers in which all were equal |
| 38th Parallel | Line that separated North Korea and South Korea |
| Douglas MacArthur | Leader of United Nations forces during the Korean War |
| Ho Chi Minh | Vietnamese nationalist who drove the French out of Vietnam and who led North Vietnam |
| Domino Theory | Theory that nations were like a row of dominoes; if one fell to communism, the others would fall, too |
| Vietcong | Communist rebels in South Vietnam who were supported by North Vietnam |
| Ngo Dinh Diem | Leader of the anticommunist government of South Vietnam |
| Vietnamization | Nixon's plan for gradually withdrawing U.S. troops from Vietnam and replacing them with South Vietnamese troops |
| Khmer Rouge | Communist rebels who set up a brutal government in Cambodia |
| Third World | Developing nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America |
| Nonaligned Nations | Countries that did not take sides with either the United States or the Soviet Union |
| Fidel Castro | Communist leader of Cuba |
| Anastasio Somoza | Nicaraguan dictator |
| Daniel Ortega | Leader of Communist rebels in Nicaragua |
| Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini | Muslim leader who overthrew the Shah of Iran |
| Nikita Khrushchev | Leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin |
| Leonid Brezhnev | Soviet leader after Khrushchev |
| John F. Kennedy | President of the United States from 1961-1963 |
| Lyndon Johnson | President of the United States from 1963-1969 |
| Détente | Policy to decrease tensions between the superpowers |
| Richard M. Nixon | President of the United States from 1969-1974 |
| SALT | Talks to limit nuclear arms in the United States and the Soviet Union |
| Ronald Reagan | President of the United States from 1981-1989 |
| Alliance | Union of people, groups, or nations to achieve common goals |
| Berlin airlift | Flying of food and supplies into West Berlin by Britain and the United States to break a Soviet blockade |
| Blockade | Act of cutting off one place from all others |
| Brink | Edge |
| Cease-Fire | End to fighting |
| Clashed | Disagreed strongly |
| Collective Farms | Large farms worked by many families |
| Counterattack | To make a return attack |
| Fragile | Delicate; easily broken |
| Guerrilla War | Warfare carried out by small, independent groups, often acting secretly in and around their own towns and villages |
| Islam | Religion with a belief in one god that developed in Arabia |
| Latitude | A line that measures distance north or south from the earth's equator |
| Neutral | Not choosing sides between any particular nations or groups |
| Political Unrest | State of conflict over the government, its leaders, or its laws |
| Revive | To bring back to life; to give new strength |
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