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Valhalla High School Bentley AP World Ch. 38

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Cuban Missile Crisis   Dispute between the Soviet Union and the United States over nuclear missile in Cuba   It was the closest that Russia and America came in nuclear exchange.   October 22, 1962   Chapter 38   show
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Containment/ (Domestic)   idea that the United States would contain the spread of communism   It prevented expansion of the enemy and was important to ending the USSR.   show Chapter 38   United States  
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Black Nationalism   A cross-fertilization of domestic and foreign policies   Millions of blacks struggled for freedom that eventually brought change   show Chapter 38   the Caribbean, the United States, and the newly independent states of Africa  
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Civil Rights Movement   Movement, inspired by MLK and Rosa Parks, that ended segregation   It was the first and foremost challenge against segregation   show Chapter 38   United States  
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Cold War Consumerism   show It distinguished between communist and capitalist societies   cold war   Chapter 38   United States and the Soviet Union  
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Iron Curtain   show seperated neighboring countries and divided Western and Eastern Europe   1945-1991   Chapter 38   Eurasia  
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Sputnik   First artificial satellite, launched by the Soviet Union   The Soviets' first demonstration of their scientific prowness in a world space race. It began the urge to produce the best technology fit for space.   October 4, 1957   Chapter 38   show
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McCarthism   anticommunist repression   Helped to stamp out the disease that was Communism (and is anything too far to the left) in America.   show Chapter 38   United States of America  
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Peaceful Coexistence   Peace between social systems and communism   show after Stalin's death in 1953   Chapter 38   United States and the Soviet Union  
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Cold War   Competition between the US and USSR over superiority   This period of time sparked a major build of arms between the US and USSR. It also sparked major improvements in technology for both nations.   show Chapter 38   USSR and America  
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Blockade of Berlin   The USSR blocking of supplies into the non-communist half of Berlin. The US was able to airlift supplies to Berlin.   This created tension between the US and USSR that lasted through the Cold War   show Chapter 38   Berlin, Eastern Germany  
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Korean War   War in which America helped the non-communist Southern Koreans to repel the North Koreans   An execution of the US policy of containment   show Chapter 38   Korea  
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Fidel Castro   Cuban communist dictator whose alliance with the USSR created the Cuban missile crisis   Castro was a communist ally of the USSR very near to the US and posed a serious threat to US national security   1926-   show Cuba  
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The Bay of Pigs   Failed CIA attempt to unseat Fidel Castro by inserting 1,500 anti-Castro Cubans into Cuba at the Bay of Pigs   show April 1961   Chapter 38   Cuba  
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Berlin Wall   show Was the physical representation of the Iron Curtain in Europe   August 1961- November 1989   Chapter 38   Berlin  
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MAD   mutually assured destruction   Concept which has kept nuclear peace since the Japanese nuclear bombings   show Chapter 38   Worldwide, but started between America and the Soviet Union  
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Nuclear Arms Race   buildup of nuclear weapons in US and USSR   show 1945-1991   Chapter 38   US and USSR  
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Mikhail Gorbachev   show his policies like Perestroika and Glasnost led to the collapse of the Soviet Union   1986-1991   Chapter 38   Soviet Union  
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Perestroika   Gorbachev's policy of decentralizing the economy   Example of the new direction in which the Soviet Union was going, which did not sit well with Soviet elites   show Chapter 38   Soviet Union  
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Ronald Reagan   president of USA who was a main component in collapse of USSR   His massive weapons programs resulted in Soviets not being able to compete with America, and crushed their economy   1981-1989   show America  
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Brezhnev Doctrine   Doctorine which justified Soviet incursion into Czechoslavakia   Very tough Soviet policy, led to tightened control within Soviet Union   1970's   Chapter 38   show
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Charles De Gaulle   -leader of France   Pretentious French leader, a hindrance in the Second World War. French Prime Minister during the early Cold War.   B. 1890, D. 1970   show France  
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Marshal Tito   show Led Yugoslavians to victory in Second Sorld War, Ruled Yugoslavia during the early Cold War.   B. 1896, D. 1980   Chapter 38   Yugoslavia  
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De-Stalinisation   show Gave liberty to Soviet people.   1956-1964   Chapter 38   USSR  
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show The challenge presented to the USSR by Hungarians under Imre Nagy   Showed resistance to Soviet expansion   1956   Chapter 38   Hungary  
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Prague Spring   Alexander Dubcek led Czechs in a rebellion against the Soviets. They crushed the rebellion.   show 1968   Chapter 38   Czechoslovakia  
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Mao Zedong   -Leader of China, believed that the peasants and not the proleteriat have the most influence on the economy. Crazy China Man   Led Chinese Communit Party to victory after the Second World War.   B. 1893 D. 1976   show China  
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Fraternal Co-operation   Co-operation between Moscow and Beijing during the early years of the Cold War.   Showed that the Soviet Union could restrain itself from conquering everywhere on Earth.   Early Cold War.   Chapter 38   show
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Detente   show Helped to wind down the Cold War for a few years.   Middle of the Cold War   Chapter 38   USA/USSR  
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Vietnam War   War in which the USA stepped in to assist their South Veitnamese allies, then left to allow the Communists to take over and waste the sacrifices of the American soldiers/sailors/marines/airmen who fought there.   claimed many American lives, allowed Communism to expand further.   1960's-1970's   show Vietnam  
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Watergate Incident   The scandal which ruined President Richard Nixon,   Ruined a President of the United States   1972-1974   show USA  
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Lech Walesa   show One of the main opposers to Soviet rule   B. 1943   Chapter 38   Poland  
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Solidarity   A combined trade union and nationalist movement   The only opposition to Commnuist Rule in Poland, aided the collapse of Communist Bloc in Eastern Europe   1980's   show Poland  
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show "revolution", in which Communists were taken out of office and Democracy was restored   Non-violent revolution, which stemmed from a wave of countries breaking away from the Communist Bloc   1990   Chapter 38   Czechoslovakia  
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Leszek Kolakowski   Polish intellectual, who stated "the dead and by mow also grotesque creature called Marxist-Leninism still hangs at the necks of rulers like a hopeless tumor   show 1971   Chapter 38   Poland  
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