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| International organization created after WWII, that intended to keep world peace | United Nations
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| Conference meeting of the "Big 3" which would divide Germany into 4 allies controlled zones after WWII | Yalta Conference
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| Represented the division between mostly democratic Western Europe and communist Eastern Europe | Iron Curtain
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| President Truman's policy directed at blocking Soviet influence and stopping the expansion of communism | Containment
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| Truman's economic and political support for countries that rejected Communism | Truman Doctrine
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| Assistance program that would provide food, machinery, and other materials to rebuild western Europe | Marshall Plan
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| Stalin's attempt to quarantine East Berlin | Berlin Blockade
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| The United States and Great Britain's successful plan to bring supplies to quarantined East Berlin | Berlin Airlift
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| Line that separates North and South Korea | 38th Parallel
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| Struggle of political differences carried on by any means short of military action or war | Cold War
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization- Military alliance of democratic nations | NATO
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| Military alliance of Eastern communist countries | Warsaw Pact
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| Willingness to go to the brink or edge of war | Brinkmanship
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| Leader of communists in China | Mao Zedong
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| High School and college age students that formed militias under Mao Zedong | Red Guards
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| 5-year farming plan in China that was a disaster | Great Leap Forward
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| Goal was to establish a society of peasants and workers in which all were equal | Cultural Revolution
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| Protest of Mao Zedong's policies by college students but crushed by the Chinese military | Tiananmen Square
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| Leader of the United Nations military during the Korean War | Douglas MacArthur
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| Leader of the Communist Party in Vietnam | Ho Chi Minh
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| Theory that the fall of one nation to communism would lead to others | Domino Theory
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| Communist rebels in Vietnam; practiced guerrilla warfare | Viet Cong
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| U.S. gradual withdrawal from Vietnam | Vietnamization
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| Leader of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis | Fidel Castro
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| A U.S. invasion of Cuba using trained Cuban exiles to fight for the U.S. | Bay of Pigs Invasion
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| Chemical used to destroy vegetation in Vietnam | Agent Orange
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| The event in which the United States and the USSR came the closest to nuclear war; it was over the soviets wanting to put missiles in a country | Cuban Missile Crisis
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| Developing nations, often newly independent | Third World Countries
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| Communist nations led by the Soviet Union | Second World Countries
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| Industrialized nations including the United States and their allies | First World Countries
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| Soviet leader after Stalin dies; involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis | Nikita Khrushchev
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| Replaced Khrushchev; helped the Soviet Union split from China's friendly alliance | Leonid Breshnev
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| Policy of lessening Cold War tensions | De'tente
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| President of the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis | John F. Kennedy
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| President of the United States at the height of the Vietnam War | Lyndon B. Johnson
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| President of the United States responsible for lessening tensions between the U.S. and China as well as the Soviet Union | Richard Nixon
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| Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty | SALT I
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| President of the United States beginning in 1981, moved away from De'tente and announced the Strategic Defense Initiative | Ronald Reagan
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| Ronald Reagan's space defense program | SDI Program
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| Leader of the Soviet Union that implemented glasnost and perestroika | Mikhail Gorbachev
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| North Korea invades an unprepared South Korea, China joins, war becomes first proxy and first to integrate | Korean War
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| Ho Chi Minh leads nationalists to overthrow the French and take the capitol | Vietnam War
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| USSR invades this country in 1979 | Afghanistan
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| Where the Chinese nationalists go to form the People's Republic of China | Taiwan
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| Islamic leader who overthrows the Shah in Iran | Khomeini
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