11 2010 Sol - Cold War Era

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this group of Eastern European
nations was dependent on and
dominated by the Soviet Union

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satellite nations

Front 2

this action provided vital supplies
to a region blockaded by the
Soviet Union

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Berlin airlift

Front 3

both the US and USSR joined
this group after WWII

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United Nations

Front 4

this aid package to rebuild war-torn
Europe was directed "not against
any country or doctrine but against
hunger, poverty, desperation,
and chaos"

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Marshall Plan

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this occurred in 1956 when Egyptian
president Gamal Nasser seized control
of certain French and British interests
in Egypt

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Suez Crisis

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this term refers to the indirect but
hostile conflict between the US and
the USSR that began at the end of
WWII

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Cold War

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in the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, this
Israeli prime minister (a former
Wisconsin resident) launched a
counterattack to regain lost territory

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Golda Meir

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Indian prime minister who was
assassinated by Sikh extremists for
ordering the attack on the Golden
Temple

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Indira Gandhi

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this is based on the idea that
countries on the brink of communism
were waiting to fall one after the other

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domino theory

Front 10

he led the Indochinese Communist
Party and fough French, Japanese,
and US forces for the independence of
Vietnam

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Ho Chi Minh

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Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as the
president of this nation

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USSR
Soviet Union