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48 Cards in this Set
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What are superpowers?
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nations that are stonger than other powerful nations
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what could shoot down missiles from hostile countries, but were viewed as a threat during the SALT talks?
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Anti-ballistic missiles
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who led the Cuban Revolution which led to harsh restrictions on political feedoms in Cuba?
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Fidel Castro
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Who became the new Soviet leader following Stalins death?
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Nikita Khrushchev
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What did President John F. Kennedy try to do to Castros communist regime in Cuba?
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he tried to overthrow it by supporting the Bay of Pigs invasion
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What did the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis do?
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it bought the Soviet Union and the United States close to a nuclear war
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The Soviet Union wanted to spread their communist___around the globe
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Ideology
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Why did the United States use a strategy of containment?
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to keep communism from spreading to new countries
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During the 1950s recessions or ___________ were rare in the United States
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the shrinking of the economy
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What did African Americans and other minority groups face during the post war years?
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segregation, or forced seperation
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Minorities also faced what in jobs and voting?
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discrimination, unequal treatment or barriers
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What in Europe led to higher taxes and increased government regulation of private enterprise?
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the welfare state
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During what era did diplomatic agreements lead to a relaxation of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union?
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the era of detente
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Who was Ho Chi Minh?
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the communist ruler of North Vietnam after 1954
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Japans _____ ________ _____ or value of goods and services, increased every year between 1950 and 1970
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Gross Domestic Product
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Who was the American supported leader of South Vietnam during the Vietnam War?
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Ngo Dinh Deim
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What is the domino theory?
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the belief that one communist victory would lead to many others
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Battling the_____ in Afghanistan was as difficult for the Soviets as fighting gurerillas in Vietnam was for the Americans
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mujahedin
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What did Gorbachev call for that means openness, in discussing problems within the Soviet Union?
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glasnost
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When was a dissident writer and human rights activist elected President?
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when communism fell in Czechoslovakia Vaclav Havel
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The____created the____ ___ to maintain the security of communist nations in Europe
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Soviet Union, Warsaw Pact
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The nuclear weapons developed during the Cold War what were more desturctive than any weapon before it?
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arms race
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The SALT talks of 1969 and what that led to limits to the number of nuclear weapons held by each side?
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1991 START treaty
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Detente was a relaxation of tension designed to restrain the _____ ____trhough ______means
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Soviet Union, diplomatic
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The transformation of Cuba under Castro resulted in restrictions to whatt?
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political freedom
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What was known as the "Red Scare"?
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the fear of communists inside the United States undermining the gov.
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Americans grew more affluent and what resulted in the movement of families from the inner city to the suburbs?
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suburbanization
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what happened under the leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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the civil rights movemnt aimed to extend equal rights to all Americans and in particular African Americans
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The U.S. provided aid to war-torn european nations through what?
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the Marshall Plan
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The European Coal and Steel Community aided economic growth in Western Europe through the elimination of tariffs that did what?
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limited trade
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Following World War II the Japanese emperor lost all of his power and a new Japanese constitiution led to the establishment of what?
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a parliamentary democracy
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Who were defeated by Mao Zedongs Chinese communists and fled to the island of Taiwan?
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the Chinese nationalists
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The______and the _______were Chinese social programs launched by Mao Zedong
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Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution
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In order to try and improve argiculture_____ created_________ ______
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Mao Zedong, argicultural communes
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The U.S. established diplomatic relations with China to isolate the Soviet Union between what two places?
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NATO and China
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In the United Nations in 1971 what did the U.S. allow China to do?
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to replace Taiwan
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North Korean forces attacked South Korea in 1950 and advanced as far as where? where they were stopped by United Nations forces
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Pusan Perimeter
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China provided troops to aid who during the Korean war?
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North Korea
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In an effort to unite Vietnam who aided the Vier Cong communist rebels who tried to overthrow the South Vietnamese government?
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Ho Chi Minh
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what was a turning point in public opinion in the United States?
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the 1968 Tet Offensive
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What part of Vietnam was victorius in the Vietnam war?
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North Vietnam
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Who killed more than a million Cambodians?
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communist guerrillas in Cambodia known as the Khmer Rouge
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When Soviet troops became involved in a war in Afghanistan what was it known as?
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the Soviet Unions Vietnam
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What led to economic turmoil as shortages grew worse and prices soared in the Soviet Union?
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Gorbachevs perestroika
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Led by Lech Walesa what Solidarity sought political and economic change?
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the Polish labor union
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East Germany resisted Gorbachev's calls for change by banning all what?
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Soviet publications
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Czechoslovakia was split into_____and the _____republic because the Slovaks and Czechs each enjoyed thier own language and cultural traditions
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Slovakia, Czech
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As communism unraveled in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union the ____enjoyed a strong____boom as they embraced________, but they undertook no political reforms
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Chinese, economic, capitalism
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