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62 Cards in this Set
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General assembly, security council, Secretariat |
Three Major organizations of the United Nations |
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Cold War |
Clash between the free world in the communist bloc |
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg |
Convicted and executed for treason in 1953 |
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Truman doctrine |
Said the US would contain communism |
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Marshall plan |
European recovery program |
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Warsaw Pact |
Military alliance of Eastern Europe and soviet union |
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Nikita khrushchev |
Became the dictator of Russia/Soviet union after stalin died |
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Marshal Tito |
Dictator of Yugoslavia, that started his own brand of communism |
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Berlin wall |
Simple of Soviet oppression in Eastern Europe |
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Konrad Adenauer |
Leader of West Germany |
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Charles de Gaulle |
Leader of free French government during World War II |
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Red Brigades |
organized Italian communist terrorist group |
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Chiang kai-shek |
Leader of Chinese nationalists |
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Mao Tse-tung |
Leader of Chinese communists |
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Great leap forward |
Second five year plan in China |
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Cultural revolution |
launched by mao tse-tung in China to purge it of counter revolutionaries |
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Red guards |
Communist gangs of Chinese young people |
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kim Il Sung |
North Korean communist leader |
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June 25, 1950 |
Date the Korean War began |
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Matthew b Ridgeway |
Replaced MacArthur as commander of the allied forces in Korea |
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There is no substitute for victory |
Quote from General Douglas, MacArthur |
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Sandinistas |
Group of communist revolution of Nicaragua |
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Juan Peron |
President of Argentina |
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Salvador allende |
Communist leader of chile |
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chaim weizmann |
First president of Israel |
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menachem begin and anwar el-sadat |
Met at camp David |
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Camp David accords |
Agreement by Israel to withdraw from the Sinai peninsula |
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Yessir arafat |
Organized the plo |
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shah of iran |
Overthrown by rebels, in 1979 |
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Ghana |
First African nation south of Sahara to gain independence |
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Republic of Congo |
Renamed zaire in 1971 |
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haile selassie 1 |
overthrown by the communists in Ethiopia |
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apartheid |
policy of racial segregation |
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African national Congress |
Influential in South Africa |
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hi chi minh |
Dictator of communist north Vietnam, after vietnam was divided |
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hi chi minh trail |
North Vietnamese supply route through Cambodia |
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gulf of Tonkin resolution |
Legal justification for US military involvement in Vietnam |
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Tet Offensive |
Victory for the Americans, that the US media portrayed as a loss |
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they did not support it |
How do you, American press felt about the war in Vietnam |
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Vietnam war |
The policy of limited warfare preventative Americans from using all of the resources to the communist won the war |
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Saigon |
Capital of south Vietnam that was renamed Ho Chi Minh City |
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Edward Teller |
Known as the father of the hydrogen bomb |
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Detente |
The idea of reducing tension |
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Henry Kissinger |
President Nixon’s assistant for national security affairs |
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Leonid brezhnev |
Replaced Nikita khrushchev as the leader of the Soviet union |
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Salt one |
United States and the Soviet union agree to limit the production of nuclear arms |
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Margaret thatcher |
Britain’s first woman Prime Minister |
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Argentina |
Invaded the Falkland islands in 1982 |
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Reagan doctrine |
Policy to stop communism before it enslaves a nation |
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Grenada |
Island that Fidel Castro attempted to use as a military base with the US liberated them before he could do so |
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KAL007 |
Passenger airliner from South Korea that was shot down in Soviet airspace |
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Chernobyl |
Where a nuclear reactor accident in the Soviet Ukraine caused 23 deaths |
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Solidarity |
Movement of Polish nationalists |
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mikhail Gorbachev |
Sign the intermediate nuclear forces treaty in 1987 with President Reagan |
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Perestroika |
Means restructuring |
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Glasnost |
Means openness |
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Gorbachev |
Communist leader, who loosened Soviet control of Eastern Europe |
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October 3, 1990 |
Date eastern and western Germany were officially reunited |
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China |
Brutally crushed a demonstration of freedom at tiananmen square |
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Boris Yeltsin |
President of the Russian republic when the Soviet union fell |
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Soviet union |
Freed Eastern Europe when they saw that Freeing these nations would get them aid from the west |
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Commonwealth of independent states |
Formed by former Soviet republics |