Belshe Cold War ----> End

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potsdam

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conference between stalin, atlee, churchill and truman to discuss how to deal with nazis unconditional surrender, ussr agrees to help us w/ war vs. japan

Front 2

clement atlee

Back 2

english prime minister following churchill

Front 3

yalta

Back 3

between fdr, stalin and churchill, decided to divide germany up into sectors

Front 4

conference where truman reveals the us has an atomic bomb

Back 4

potsdam

Front 5

current secretary general of un

Back 5

ban-ki moon

Front 6

past three un secretary generals (in order of increasing time period served backwards)

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kofi annan, boutros boutros gahli, cuellar

Front 7

plural society

Back 7

multinational under one state, many different cultures, still trade and interact with each other

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security dillemma

Back 8

is our nation secure? will we have to fight another war?

Front 9

MAD-mutually assured destruction

Back 9

each side can drop "bomb" and destroy each other

Front 10

zero sum security balance

Back 10

belived by soviets that if another country gains more power/influence, then ussr is therefore losing power/influence (tug of war)

Front 11

nikita kurschev

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stalin successor, much more relaxed rules than stalin

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john f kennedy

Back 12

president of us, visited russia, president during major conflicts with cuba

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ronald reagan

Back 13

president during cold war,...

Front 14

security council

Back 14

in charge of keeping conflicts between nations under control. interfere if its necessary

Front 15

nation

Back 15

share common religion, history, language, activities, symbols and values

Front 16

iron curtain

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east countries more allied to ussr, west more allied to us

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state

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political and legal entities that exercise soverignty over a specific area , multinational

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citizenship

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a person that give allegiance to a state in exchange for rights and protection, nationality doesn't matter

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separatism

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when a group no longer wants to belong to a certain state, want to belong to a different state

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ethnic identity

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ethnicity, common language, history, religious symbols, each ethnicity unique, same as a nation

Front 21

civic identity

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citizenship, connected to state, everyone offered protection/rights from the state no matter ethnicity

Front 22

bosnia

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conflict between serbs, muslims and croats

Front 23

six "states" of yugoslavia

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bosnia, croatia, serbia, montenegro, slovenia, macedonia

Front 24

kosovo

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first to break from serbia, majority albanian, minority serb, serbs had sort of apartheid rule over albanians

Front 25

milosovich

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leader of serbian serbs, played up ethnic hatreds to maintain power after commnunism overthrown

Front 26

international criminal court

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court to try war criminals, has representatives from all of world

Front 27

kla

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kosovar liberation army, rebel army that sprung up as kosovo was gaining independence

Front 28

hutu

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originally suppressed by imperialism, seek revenge on tutsi when they gain power after european powers leave

Front 29

tutsi

Back 29

favored by imperialists, persecuted after imperialists leave

Front 30

Nuremberg Trials

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trials trying only a few heads of Nazis (rest had committed suicide), in Nuremberg (idealogical center of Nazism), most punished, Gohring killed himself before he could be convicted

Front 31

tokyo trials

Back 31

held by winning countries punishing japanese officials

Front 32

downfall of tokyo trials

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the people actually responsible for the crimes were let go, so relatively innocent people were punished unfairly

Front 33

third world

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any country not alligned with warsaw pact or nato

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truman doctrine

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giving money to greece/turkey so that they didn't have to become communist, us sent money

Front 35

marshall plan

Back 35

us provided money to western european countries so they could rebuild after ww2, stimulated political reconstruction

Front 36

four stages of berlin wall (in order)

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brandenburg gate, jfk, reagan, fall of the wall

Front 37

nuclear non proliferation treaty

Back 37

treaty to limit the spread of nuclear weapons

Front 38

human rights

Back 38

basic rights to life (food, shelter etc, rights you have just for living)

Front 39

helsinki accords

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signed to improve relations between communism and the west, recognized borders as they were after ww2, gave ussr baltic states in exchange for ussr being more humane

Front 40

interdependence

Back 40

two things dependent on one another

Front 41

tokyo trials

Back 41

held by winning countries punishing japanese officials

Front 42

downfall of tokyo trials

Back 42

the people actually responsible for the crimes were let go, so relatively innocent people were punished unfairly

Front 43

third world

Back 43

any country not alligned with warsaw pact or nato

Front 44

truman doctrine

Back 44

giving money to greece/turkey so that they didn't have to become communist, us sent money

Front 45

marshall plan

Back 45

us provided money to western european countries so they could rebuild after ww2, stimulated political reconstruction

Front 46

four stages of berlin wall (in order)

Back 46

brandenburg gate, jfk, reagan, fall of the wall

Front 47

nuclear non proliferation treaty

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treaty to limit the spread of nuclear weapons

Front 48

human rights

Back 48

basic rights to life (food, shelter etc, rights you have just for living)

Front 49

helsinki accords

Back 49

signed to improve relations between communism and the west, recognized borders as they were after ww2, gave ussr baltic states in exchange for ussr being more humane

Front 50

interdependence

Back 50

two things dependent on one another

Front 51

oil crisis

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middle eastern countries put an oil embargo on the us after the us helped rearm israel's military

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debt crisis

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latin america had lots of debt, and it funneled into everyones economies suffering

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how oil crisis affected debt crisis

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with rising debt, countries were out of money. developing countries had to borrow more and more money to get oil.