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12 Cards in this Set
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containment policy
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The United States policy where we offered money, materials, technological knowledge for any country that asked for help in preventing a communist takeover
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Truman Doctrine
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President Harry Truman's idea that the spread of communism is a threat to democracy, and we should get rid of it all together.
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Market Economy
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(Democratic) Businesses are privately owned, and the government doesn't interfere
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Command Economy
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(Communist) Businesses and the economy are completely owned and controlled by the government.
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containment policy
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The United States policy where we offered money, materials, technological knowledge for any country that asked for help in preventing a communist takeover
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Truman Doctrine
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President Harry Truman's idea that the spread of communism is a threat to democracy, and we should get rid of it all together.
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Market Economy
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(Democratic) Businesses are privately owned, and the government doesn't interfere
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Command Economy
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(Communist) Businesses and the economy are completely owned and controlled by the government.
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The Great Leap forward
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• In 1958, new Chinese plan to speed up modernization in an attempt to equal the west
• Huge failure in which as many as twenty million people starved to death between 1958 and 1960 due to food shortages • Plan abandoned by the government in the early 1960’s |
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Cultural Revolution
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• In 1966, violent attempt at social change in China
• Goal is to rid China of its customs, habits, and thoughts and replace them with a socialist culture • Recruited young people called the “Red Guard” to lead the revolution • Ruined ancient works of art, books, and destroyed anyone especially artists and intellectuals who did not follow Mao’s way completely • Result was decreased output and industry and chaos in Chinese society. In late 1968, Mao broke up the Red Guard. |
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China after Mao Zedong
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• Mao Zedong dies in 1976. After a fight with radicals for control of China, moderate communists take over. China moves into the modern age and begins exchanging and importing technology from the west.
• By early 1990’s, China had become one of the world’s fastest growing economies. |
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Detente/SALT
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• By the late 1960’s the superpowers had instituted a policy of détente or a reduction in hostilities
• Visible sighs of détente were o SALT (strategic arms limitations talks in the 1970’s (Détente ended when the US resumed full diplomatic relationship with China and agreed to sell it nuclear weapons) |
