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33 Cards in this Set
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USA goal of the cold war
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-Become a world power
-spread democracy around the world -Be 1st in space and to reach the moon -Create peace and stability helping countries recover from WWII -Containment of communism |
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USSR goal of the cold war
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-Become a world power
-Spread communism around the world -Be 1st in space and to reach the moon -Ensure security from what they view as hostile west and capitalistic goals |
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Truman doctrine
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US must consider the continued spread of communism as a threat to democracy and "must support free peoples who are resisting armed subjugation"
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Truman authorized
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$400 million to aid Greece and Turkey
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Containment
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policy of containing or restricting the spread of communism (KENNAN) - Kennan is a displomat to the USSR, says that the Soviet Union is hostile to the US
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East and West Germany (and division of Berlin) is in the middle of
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the iron curtain (Churchill created this metaphor)
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West is boosted by Marshall Plan and
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East economy struggles so have mass immigration
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West Berlin is saved by
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Berlin Airlift
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A symbol of the cold war that the soviets built is
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Berlin Wall
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Hastening the end of the cold war is
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the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989
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Marshall Plan
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send money to Europe to rebuild, named after US secretary of state whose idea it was
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Marshall Plan...also known as (and give all information about the Marshall Plan)
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European Recovery Program, removed trade barriers and provided aid to Europe
-1948-1952 - $13 billion in aid, refused by Eastern European communist nations, by 1952 European economy had recovered -Soviets set up COMECON but not as successful |
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NATO is the
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North American Treaty Organization
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NATO is an alliance of
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12 nations, if one nation is attacked, others would ally against the aggressor
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Warsaw Pact
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Eastern bloc forms 20 year mutual defense agreement
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Nuclear Weapons was the equalizer
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Mutually Assured Destruction, or MAD(deterence)
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"Soviet Satellites" were in control by Soviet Union, standing alone
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Yugoslavia, led by Tito (communist) and China, led by Mao Zedong (communist)
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Nikita Kruschev - 1953-1962
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-Stalin dies - what now
-"De-Stalinization" - less strict -Established Warsaw PAct -Launched Sputnik -Bay of Pigs |
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Cuban Missile Crisis order of events
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1. SU puts missiles in Cuba
2. Kennedy threatens war, masses hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Miami 3. Negotiations for 13 days 4. Deal - missiles go away, but the US promises to never invade Cuba 5. The United States had to take the nukes out of Turkey |
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Emperor of China overthrown in 1911, leading to
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long Civil War (emperor at the time was six years old)
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Chiang Kai-Shrek (1925) was
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nationalist leader, basically dictator
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Chiang vs. Communists was
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the conflict that led to another Civil War
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Chiang tried to get rid of the communists in what event
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Shanghai Massacre
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Mao Zedong started another civil war
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1930, communists vs nationalists
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Mao covets
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peasant support
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"The people are the water...
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...the soldiers are the fish."
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1934 Long March was where
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Communists flee to mountains
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1931/1937 Japanese Invasion meant that
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20 million Chinese died in WW2 while Chiang did nothing and Mao fought the Japanese, so the people turned to Mao Zedong as their leader, Civil War over
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1949, Communist Government established with who as leader
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Wow! It's Mao! (puns.....)
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Nationalists chased to
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Taiwan, recognized as "true" Chinese government until 1972
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Land Reform
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10% of population owned 70% of land
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Great Leap Forward
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established collective farms and export grain to show off non-existent wealth, starved tens of millions
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Cultural Revolution
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Mao's attempt to reassert control and appeal to young
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