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40 Cards in this Set
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38 th parallel |
Dividing line between north and south Korea |
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Cold War |
Ideological conflict between US & USSR After ww2 to 1991 Struggle for power between democracy& communism |
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"Witch Hunts" |
Fear spread through U.S. when senator Joseph McCarthy questioned America's loyalty to U.S. Sought to uncover ties to communism Aka McCarthyism |
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Yuri Gagarin |
First man in space- Soviet Part of space rave between U.S. and USSR |
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Neil Armstrong |
First U.S. man on moon |
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Nuclear Deterrence |
The notion of having a nuclear sick like to keep other countries from attacking |
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Fission |
The process by which a large atomic nucleus splits to form two smaller ones Atomic bomb |
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Fusion |
A process in which nuclei of atoms join together, releasing tremendous energy Hydrogen bomb |
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The United nations |
Founded in 1945to prevent wars General assembly and security council |
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The iron curtain |
Churchill said this "has descended across Europe" For decades it divided the democratic west from the communist east |
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The Truman Doctrine |
1947 policy Provided $400 Million to Greece and Turkey to prevent communism from taking hold |
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Containment |
This policy involves keeping Soviet communism from spreading to other nations in the form of world revolutions America's foreign policy during the cold war |
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National security act of 1947 |
This act of congress created the National Security Admin The CIA All designed to help contain communism |
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The Marshall Plan |
Led by Truman's secretary of state Have Europe $13 billion from 1948-1951 Rebuilt Europe's economy and prevented communist take over |
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Yalta Conference |
The Big 3 agreed that there should be an international body to settle disputes between nations |
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Berlin Aircraft |
After Stalin pressed a blockade of german capital (1948) Allies supplied the free side for 321 days First major crisis over Berlin |
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NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
Military alliance formed by the US in 1949 with democracies of western Europe to prevent a Soviet attack |
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Warsaw Pact |
1955- Soviet forced eastern European nations into this military alliance sheet the west formed NATO in '49 Yugoslavia didn't join |
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Communist Revolution in China |
Mao Zedong brought this about with victory over Chiang's nationalist forces in 1949, who escaped Taiwan |
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Inchon Landing |
Gen Douglas MacArthur led UN forces behind enemy lines Able to get the north to retreat until China attacked with 100,000 men |
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Korean War |
Undeclared war Started with communist invasion in 1950 & ended in 1953 after 34,000 Americans gave their lives America's "forgotten war" |
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John Foster Dulles |
Secretary of state under Eisenhower Willing to using "brinkmanship" (practice of pushing dangerous events to the verge of disaster in order to achieve the most advantageous outcome) to stop communism Included use of nuclear weapons |
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Peaceful co-existance |
When Khrushchev granted limited self rule to Poland, many thought he was trying to bring about this policy. It involves negotiation and compromise between communism and capitalism. |
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Nikita Khrushchev |
He became Soviet owner after Stalin's death in 1953 Said communism would "bury" the west Net with JFK in Vienna in 1961 and placed nuclear missiles in Cuba |
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Sputnik 1 |
Name of first artificial satellite launched by soviets in 1957 Started space race between the two nations |
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ICBMs Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles |
These missiles carry nuclear warheads between continents Children did duck and cover drills to prepare for attack from these weapons |
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Eisenhower Doctrine |
1957 policy Designed to prevent communism takeover in the middle east Aided Lebanon and Jordan in 1958 |
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Fidel Castro |
Took power in Cuba in 1959 when he overthrew dictator Batista Set up communist gov and allied Cuba with the USSR |
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The Bay of Pigs Invasion |
This invasion of Cuba by 1500 cuban exiles was supported by CIA but failed JFK HAD TO TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ACTION |
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The Berlin Wall |
Put up in 1961 to keep people from escaping to democratic west Berlin Over 400 people died trying to cross it until it was torn down in 1989 |
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Cuban Missile Crisis |
Nuclear missile sites discovered in Cuba Kennedy ordered a naval blockade of cuba ICBMs were prepared for launch Polaris submarines dispatched B 52 bombers placed on alert Khrushchev withdrew missiles from Cuba Closest world has come to nuclear exchange "Hotline" installed between U.S. and USSR |
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Détente |
General easing of political tensions between Soviet union and U.S. Began in 1971 as foreign policy of US presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford A "thawing out " or "un freezing " period roughly in the middle of the cold war |
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Perestroika |
Economic reforms introduced in June 1985 by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev "Restructuring" (of Soviet economy ) |
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Nuclear Proliferation |
Arms race to build greater quantities and more powerful nuclear weapons |
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CONGO - Lumumba |
Soviets aided Lumumba US sponsored a coup to remove him and install a pro west gov that led to decades of human rights violations |
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Egypt- Arab Israeli Conflict |
Egypt was pro Soviet Israel was pro U.S. Fight over Sinai Peninsula |
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Chinese Civil War |
Communist and Soviet backed Mao Zedong fought against Nationalist/democratic U.S. backed Sun Yat-Sen & his successor Chiang Kai-shek Mao wins, Chiang flees to Taiwan where he was protected by U.S. |
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Yom Kippur war |
Egypt and Syria launched a surprise military attack on Israel Close to attack on Yom Kippur, holiest day of Jewish ,a day when most Israelis were in synagogue praying and fasting |
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U.N. PARTITION PLAN |
Nov 29, 1947 General assembly of United nations voted with a 2/3 vote to position western Palestine into a Jewish and Arab state Jewish population accepted the plan Arabs rejected it and invaded They lost and once again Israel became a state |
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Six Day War June 1967 |
Israel vs. Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq Israel won in roughly 6 days, expanding its borders in an effort to protect itself from increasing hostilities by their neighbors |
