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APWH Vocab Unit 8

Test on thursday Mar 21

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Tehran Conference Meeting in Iran to discus freeing East and West Europe
Yalta Confrence Meeting about reconstructing Europe and defeating Japan
Potsdam Conference Last meeting and lead to disagreement between US and USSR about elections.
Self determination The idea that each country should choose their government type
Hydrogen Bomb More powerful bomb than the Atom Bombs.
Military-Industrial Complex Informal alliance between government and the large defense contractors
Iron Curtain the metaphor to represent the split between East and West Europe
Truman Doctrine Strong Statement that the United states would do what it had to do to stop the spread of communist influence
Mutual Assured Destruction Both sides of the war would end up obliterated
Sputnik USSR launched artificial satellite, and it orbited around earth, it started the space race.
Marshall Plan It was designed to offer 12$ billion in aid to all nations of Europe, including Germany, used to modernize industry, reduce trade barriers and rebuild Europe's damaged infrastructure.
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) Soviet's plan to help rebuild eastern Europe
Cuban Missile Crisis Soviet union was shipping missiles to Cuba because the US had missiles in turkey
Warsaw Pact Soviet's response to the NATO, and they combined their armed forces, and made their base in Moscow
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that called on nuclear powers to prevent the spread of Military nuclear tech and material to non-nuclear countries
Hot Line Telegram/teleprinter line that was set up between the Soviet and the United state leaders.
Anti-Nuclear weapons movement Movement against Nuclear weaponry, started in Japan, then spread to the rest of the world.
Land Reform The government took land and made it into various uses
Communes large agricultural communities where the state held the land not private owners.
Theocracy Form of government that religion has supreme authority
Cultural Revoluton Mao's attempt to reinvigorate China's commitment to communism
Gamal Abdel Nasser Helped to overthrow the king and established the Republic of Egypt
Suez Crisis The french held the Suez canal for 100 years, and the Egyptians saw it as a flight to their independence, so they fought the french.
Quiet Revolution Revolution in the 1960s that led to political and social change in Quebec and the liberal Party gaining power and reforming economic polices that let further separation from Britain.
Muslim League After Indian Independence, they founded this to advocate for an independent nation for Indian muslims.
Organization of African Unity (OAU) Nkrumah's organisation to promote Pan-Africanism.
Viet Cong South Vietnamese people who Supported Communism
Camp David Accords A peace agreement between prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel, and President Anwar Sadat of Egypt
Hamas Faction that protected the Gaza
Khmer Rouge Communist Guerrilla organization that overthrew the government of cambodia
Metropole Large city of a former colonial ruler, EX: london
Prague Spring When the reform movement in Czechoslovakia reached its peak
Martin Luther King Jr. Most prominent leader of the African American civil rights movement in America.
Nelson Mandela Socialist lawyer who led the black resistance in South Africa.
Kent State University Location of murder of 4 unarmed students by antiwar critics.
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) Treaty that was designed to keep the number of intercontinental ballistic missiles that each power could keep.
Perestroika attempts to restructure the soviet economy to allow elements of free enterprise
Glasnost the policy of opening up Society society and the political process by granting greater freedom
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) the system whould supposedly destroy any soviet nuclear missiles that targeted the United states or its allies.
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