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30 Cards in this Set
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United Nations
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World organization formed to prevent war
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Iron curtain
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Division between Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War
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Containment
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Policy aimed at preventing the spread of communism
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Truman Doctrine
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Policy of giving aid to countries threatened by communism
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Marshall Plan
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Plan to give aid to European countries to help them recover from the war
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Cold war
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State of tension and mistrust between the United States and the Soviet Union after WWII
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NATO
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Military alliance including the United States, Canada, and several countries in Western Europe
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Warsaw Pact
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Military alliance between the Soviet Union and the countries of Eastern Europe
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Brinkmanship
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Willingness on the part of the superpower to go to the brink, or edge, of war
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Mao Zedong
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Communist leader who defeated the nationalists and led the People's Republic of China
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Jiang Jieshi
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Nationalist leader who set up a new government in Taiwan
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Commune
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Large farm setup in China in which many families work the land and live together
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Red Guards
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Young Chinese students who carried out the Cultural Revolution
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Cultural Revolution
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Uprising in China between 1966 and 1976 that aimed to establish a society of peasants and workers in which all were equal
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38th parallel
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Line that separated North Korea and South Korea
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Douglas MacArthur
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Leader of United Nations forces during the Korean War
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Ho Chi Minh
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Vietnamese nationalist who drove the French out of Vietnam and who led North Vietnam
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Domino Theory
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Theory that nations were like a row of dominoes; if one fell to communism, they others would fall, too
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Vietcong
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Communist rebels in South Vietnam who were supported by North Vietnam
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Ngo Dinh Diem
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Leader of the anticommunist government of South Vietnam
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Third World
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Developing nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America
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Nonaligned nations
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Countries that did not take sides with either the United States or the Soviet Union
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Fidel Castro
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Communist leader of Cuba
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Nikita Krushchev
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Leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin
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Leonid Brezhnev
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Soviet leader after Krushchev; forced Krushchev out
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Detente
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Policy to decrease tensions between the superpowers
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SALT
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Talks to limit nuclear arms in the United States and the Soviet Union
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Berlin Airlift
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Flying of food and supplies into West Berlin by Britain and the United States to break a Soviet blockade
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Cease-fire
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End to Fighting
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Collective farms
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Large farms worked by many families
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