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world history test 1

world history vocab ch 12???

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The economic system that is based on the government/public ownership of the means of production is communism
The economic system that is based on the private ownership of the mans of production and their operation for profit is capitalism
This program gave $13 billion (US) to rebuild Europe after WWII Marshall plan
The policy to keep communism within its existing borders /boundaries. containment policy
This document says the US will financially support countries threatened by communism. The Truman doctrain
The defensive alliance for Western Europe AND the defensive alliance for Eastern Europe are NATO and Warsaw pact
The acronym "ICBM" stands for intercontinental ballistic missiles
The first man- made space satellite to orbit earth was named sputnik 1
The man who replaced Stalin as leader of the USSR was Khrushchev
The secret police in the USSR was called the KGB
One who protests against the government is a dissident
The author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and the Gulag Archipelago Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
This communist nation was NOT a Soviet satellite state Yugoslavia
This nation was invaded by the Soviet Union in 1956, and this one in 1968 Hungary, Czechoslovakia
He was the leader of the Nationalist party in China Chiang Kai-Shek
he was the leader of the Communist Party in China Mao Zedong
In Communist countries, privately owned land will become collectivized
The Nationalists were chased off of the Chinese mainland to this island Taiwan
Mao believed that this would create a working class culture cultural revolution
in China, this created 26,000 communes with 30,000 people on each one The great leap forward
these students fought against the 'four olds' Red guard
After Mao dies, this man ends the cultural revolution Deng
it means to have someone else fight your enemy for you Proxy war
in addition to NATO, America created these organizations to stop communism CENTO, SEATO
Korea was divided at this parallel of latitude, and Vietnam was divided at this 38 parallel, 17 parallel
this Cuban overthrew Batista and led his Nation towards communism Fidel castro
The failed invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles with US support occurred here Bays of pigs
this is how JFK resolved the Cuban Missile Crisis Cuban Blockade
he led Communists and nationalists against the French in Vietnam Ho Chi Minh
communist rebels in South Vietnam were called the vietcong
The Alliance of Vietnamese Rebel forces were called the vietminh
the idea / fear That one nation after another will fall to Communism is called Domino effect
this was the name of the supply line between North and South Vietnam Ho chi minh trail
the Vietnam war ends in this year 1975
This was a period of relaxed tension and improved relations between the us and USSR detente
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