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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

Cold War

Clash between the free world in the communist bloc

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Convicted and executed for treason in 1953

Truman doctrine

Said the US would contain communism

Marshall plan

European recovery program

Warsaw Pact

Military alliance of Eastern Europe and soviet union

Nikita khrushchev

Became the dictator of Russia/Soviet union after stalin died

Marshal Tito

Dictator of Yugoslavia, that started his own brand of communism

Berlin wall

Simple of Soviet oppression in Eastern Europe

Konrad Adenauer

Leader of West Germany

Charles de Gaulle

Leader of free French government during World War II

Red Brigades

organized Italian communist terrorist group

Chiang kai-shek

Leader of Chinese nationalists

Mao Tse-tung

Leader of Chinese communists

Great leap forward

Second five year plan in China

Cultural revolution

launched by mao tse-tung in China to purge it of counter revolutionaries

Red guards

Communist gangs of Chinese young people

kim Il Sung

North Korean communist leader

June 25, 1950

Date the Korean War began

Matthew b Ridgeway

Replaced MacArthur as commander of the allied forces in Korea

There is no substitute for victory

Quote from General Douglas, MacArthur

Sandinistas

Group of communist revolution of Nicaragua

Juan Peron

President of Argentina

Salvador allende

Communist leader of chile

chaim weizmann

First president of Israel

menachem begin and anwar el-sadat

Met at camp David

Camp David accords

Agreement by Israel to withdraw from the Sinai peninsula

Yessir arafat

Organized the plo

shah of iran

Overthrown by rebels, in 1979

Ghana

First African nation south of Sahara to gain independence

Republic of Congo

Renamed zaire in 1971

haile selassie 1

overthrown by the communists in Ethiopia

apartheid

policy of racial segregation

African national Congress

Influential in South Africa

hi chi minh

Dictator of communist north Vietnam, after vietnam was divided

hi chi minh trail

North Vietnamese supply route through Cambodia

gulf of Tonkin resolution

Legal justification for US military involvement in Vietnam

Tet Offensive

Victory for the Americans, that the US media portrayed as a loss

they did not support it

How do you, American press felt about the war in Vietnam

Vietnam war

The policy of limited warfare preventative Americans from using all of the resources to the communist won the war

Saigon

Capital of south Vietnam that was renamed Ho Chi Minh City

Edward Teller

Known as the father of the hydrogen bomb

Detente

The idea of reducing tension

Henry Kissinger

President Nixon’s assistant for national security affairs

Leonid brezhnev

Replaced Nikita khrushchev as the leader of the Soviet union

Salt one

United States and the Soviet union agree to limit the production of nuclear arms

Margaret thatcher

Britain’s first woman Prime Minister

Argentina

Invaded the Falkland islands in 1982

Reagan doctrine

Policy to stop communism before it enslaves a nation

Grenada

Island that Fidel Castro attempted to use as a military base with the US liberated them before he could do so

KAL007

Passenger airliner from South Korea that was shot down in Soviet airspace

Chernobyl

Where a nuclear reactor accident in the Soviet Ukraine caused 23 deaths

Solidarity

Movement of Polish nationalists

mikhail Gorbachev

Sign the intermediate nuclear forces treaty in 1987 with President Reagan

Perestroika

Means restructuring

Glasnost

Means openness

Gorbachev

Communist leader, who loosened Soviet control of Eastern Europe

October 3, 1990

Date eastern and western Germany were officially reunited

China

Brutally crushed a demonstration of freedom at tiananmen square

Boris Yeltsin

President of the Russian republic when the Soviet union fell

Soviet union

Freed Eastern Europe when they saw that Freeing these nations would get them aid from the west

Commonwealth of independent states

Formed by former Soviet republics