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43 Cards in this Set
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konrad adenauer |
lead the christian democratic movement |
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fidel castro |
overthrows cuba with ussr's help |
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charles de gaulle |
leads france - creates 5th republic |
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lyndon b. johnson |
wins USA election - wants welfare state |
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richard nixon |
USA president |
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alexander solzhenitsyn |
novelist critic of the SU - raised awareness for forced labor camps |
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john f. kennedy |
USA president |
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nikita khrushchev |
SU dictator - destalinize |
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josef stalin |
SU dictator |
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joseph McCarthy |
senator - red scare |
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tito |
yugoslavia -communist but not under the control of the SU |
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satellite states |
bumper states to protect the SU |
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domino theory |
if one country falls to communism that the rest of the other countries will |
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welfare state |
when health care, insurance, etc are covered through peoples taxes |
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capitalism |
people are in control |
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communism |
government is control |
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de-stalinization |
proving that Stalin did bad things and expose him |
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command economy |
communism |
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market economy |
capitalism |
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deterrence |
use of punishment as a threat to deter people from offerings |
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marshall plan |
send $13 billion worth of supplies to help aid Europe |
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china and communism |
moa dedong changed to communism |
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warsaw pact |
a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states. |
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NATO |
North Atlantic for capitalism |
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Bay of pigs |
Unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by the CIA |
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Alexander dubcek |
Czech - allows many freedoms and moves to democracy - SU enforces communism again |
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joseph McCarthy |
fear of communists leads to red scare with was provoked by McCarthy |
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kent state shootings |
protests about drafts |
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truman doctrine |
400 million to support democratic government - Greece and turkey |
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comecon |
SU tries to duplicate the turman plan but fails |
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berlin wall |
to keep people from going from the east side of Germany to the west side (capitalist size) |
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economic miracle |
unemployment falls - needs guest workers - west germany |
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civil rights act |
out lawed discrimination of race, gender, origin, and religion |
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eec |
no tax |
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korean war |
USA with south korea - USA stopped it from spreading downwards |
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berlin aircraft |
200,000 flights bring 2.3 million tons of supplies over 10 months - west berlin was cut off from trade |
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yugoslavia |
communists but not under USSR |
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mao zedong |
announces a new communists government |
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francis gary powers |
U-2 plane got shot down while flying of USSR |
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New deal |
for increases the rule/power of the Federal government |
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hungry |
turns democracy but is crushed down by the SU |
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baby boom |
women leave there jobs because of all of the new children |
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gb and other big countries |
lost land over seas to help pay for post war problems |
