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30 Cards in this Set
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united nations
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organization created after ww2 to promote peace and prevent future wars.
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security council
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strongest body of the U.N., makes major decisions. 15 nations are in it, 5 are permanent
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yalta conference
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FDR/stalin/churchill
meet to make plans for post ww2 world. they decide:1) make an international peace keeping organiztaion 2) hold elections in east european nations after ww2 |
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buffer zone
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ussr wanted freindly nations between themselves and germany, so no elections took place in east europe. communist " puppet" goverments were set up to create a buffer zone
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potsdam conferance
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truman/stalin/churchill
divide germany and berlin into 4 zones of occupation |
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containment
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us foreign policy after ww2, contain the spread of communism
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truman doctrine
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teh us says they wull help and nation resisnt communism takeovers.used in greece and turkey.
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marshall plan
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us plan to spread billions rebuilding europe after ww2. us hoped this would help contain communism.
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berlin airlift
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us and uk fly supplies to west berlin b/c a soviet union blockade kept them from using r.r.'s and higways into berlin .
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NATO
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military alliance between us and democratic nations in west europe designed to conatin communism
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japan
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occupied by the us after ww2. general macarthur set up a democarcy there by 1947.
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chiang Kai-shek/nationalists
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us supports them in a civil war in china.they lost to maozedong and the communitsts
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mao zedong/communtists
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won control of china in 1949,made china a communtist nation
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38th parallel
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dividing line in korea after ww2- soviets control area north of the 38th, us conrtols south of it.
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korean war
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1950-53. n korea attacks south korea. the un decides to defend s. korea. result is 2 nations form,communist-n korea and democratic s korea
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Mac arthur removed
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by president truman for criticizing his handling of the korean war.macarthur wants to bomb china,truman did not.
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stalemate
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result of the korean war, no side is a clear winner
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h-bomb
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first nuclear weapon, us and ussr both have them in the early 1950s.
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sputnik
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first artificial satellite, launched by ussr. this starts the space race.
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NASA
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formed by the us after sputnik, designed to catch up and win the space race
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nikita khruschev
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soviet dictator who followed josef stalin. kruschev challenged JFK w. a wall in berlin and missles in cuba.
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coexistence
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krushchev sats the us and ussr con coexizt peacefully
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u-2 incident
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soviets shoot down a us spy plan over the soviet union and capture the pilot.
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JFK
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elected in 1960, 1st president that is catholic, assassinated in 1963.
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cold war
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period of tension and hostilities between the us and ussr after ww2 both nations want to extend their influence around the world
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bay of pigs invasion
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cia trained cuban exiles to lead and invasion of cuba to remove fidel castro form power, the revolution failed.
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cuban missile crisis
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62-us spy plane finds soviet missile in cuba. jfk forced krushchev to remove the missiles.this almost led to a nuclear war.
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hotline
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estalished after the cuban missile crisis, allows us/ussr leaders to talk immediatley in the event of a crisis
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lee harvey oswald
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man charged with the assassintion of jfk
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lbj
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lyndon baines johnson, vp for jfk- took over after the assassination
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