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71 Cards in this Set
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War of Attrition
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War fought between Israel, Egypt, USSR and Palestinian Liberation Org.
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Warsaw Pact
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Made friendship between West Germany and the People's Republic of Poland.
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Mao Zedong
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Led the communist Party of China and the People's Republic of China.
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Long March
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Massive military retreat by the communist Party of China.
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Tet Offensive
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Series of operational offensives by the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army.
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My Lai
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Massacre of hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians, mostly women and children, by US soldiers.
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Juan Peron
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President of Argentina twice. Developed peronism which is a third way between capitalism and socialism.
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Sandinistas
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Led a revolution that overthrew the Samoza party and ruled Nicaraga for 11 yrs.
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Mohandas Gandhi
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Leader of India, led civil disobedince movements that were non-violent.
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Stalin
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Ruler of USSR communist party. Successor of Lenin.
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Great Purge
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Name given to campaigns of political repression and persecution in the Soviet Union by Stalin.
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Leader of the Soviet Union from 1985-1991. Helped end the Cold War. Won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990.
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Cold War
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Period of tension/conflict and competition between the US and Soviet Union. No actual fighting took place.
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Truman Doctrine
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US foreign policy to contain communism in which the US could intervene if felt necessary.
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Domino Theory
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Promoted by US govt. that if one country falls to communism than others would follow.
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NATO
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization consisting of a military alliance of Netherlands, Luxembourg, France and United Kingdom.
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Ho Chi Minh
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Prime minister and president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
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Jawaharlal Nehru
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First prime minister of the Republic of India.
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Dien Bien Phu
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Small town in north-west Vietnam know for the events that took place there.
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Viet Cong
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Military organization of Vietnam, made many brutal attacks on their enemies.
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Operation Rolling Thunder
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Bombing against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam by the US.
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Salvador Allende
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President of Chile from Nov. 1970 until he committed suicide in 1973.
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5-year Plans
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Series of nation-wide centralized exercises in rapid economic development in the Soviet Union. (Never worked)
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M.A.D. Mutual Assured Destruction
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A doctrine of military strategy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by 1 of 2 opposing sides would eventually result in the destruction of both.
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Marshall Plan
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Plan of the US for rebuilding and creating a stronger foundation for the allied countries of Europe.
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Ayatollah Khomeini
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1st supreme leader of Iran.
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Fascist Party
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Italian party created by Benito Mussolini.
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Nazi Party
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Anti-semetic party led by Adolf Hitler, comitted Holocaust.
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Stalingrad
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Battle between Soviet Union and Germany for Stalingrad City. Bloodiest battle in history.
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Atomic bombings during WW2 against the Empire of Japan by US result of Pearl Harbor.
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Auschwitz
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Concentration camp located in Poland. Largest concentration camp. 3 million ppl killed there.
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Nuremberg Trials
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Prosecution of prominent members of Nazi Germany.
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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Indian Muslim leader of the All India Muslim League and founded Pakistan.
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Proxy Wars
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Where 2 powers use 3rd parties as a substitute for fighting directly.
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Glashost
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Russian word that means transparency. Mikhail Gorbachev used it to describe the reform of the Soviet Union.
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Perestroika
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Economic reforms by Gorbachev.
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Pax Americana
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Period of peace in the Western world after WW2.
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Saddam Huessin
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President of Iraq.
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Pax Brittanica
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Period of peace in Britain as they controlled key routes.
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"Stab in the back" theory
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Propaganda theory in Germany that the public lost the war.
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Totalitarianism
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Describes modern regimes in which the state regulates nearly every aspect of public/private behavior.
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Beer Hall Putsch
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Failed attempt of the Nazi Party to take power over Munich, Germany.
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Untermenschen
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Term used by the Nazis to describe inferior people.
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Ubermenschen
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Term used by the Nazis to describe superior people.
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Lebensraum
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Major politcal ideas of Adolf Hitler. Motivation for support promising a greater Germany.
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Lost Generation
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Group of American literary notables who lived in Europe from the end of WW1 till the Great Depression.
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Ho Chi Minh Trail
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Logical system that ran from Democratic Republic of Vietnam to the Republic of Vietnam.
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The Final Solution
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Novel by Michael Chabon describing the Nazis plan.
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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Joint resolution passed by the US congress that gave Pres. Johnson authorization without a formal declaration to use military force in Southeast Asia.
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Collectivization
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Policy adopted by the Soviet Union that peasants had to give up their farms and join collective farms.
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Treaty of Versailles
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Peace treaty that officially ended WW1 but put huge responsibilites on Germany making them pay back large reparations. Thought to be the underlying cause of WW2.
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Asian Tigers
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Refers to economics of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.
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Battle of Midway
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Naval battle in the Pacific during WW2. US defeated a Japanese attack against Midway Atoll.
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Bolsheviks
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2nd party congress in the Soviet Union that was founded by Lenin.
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Augusto Pinochet
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Military dictator and President of Chile from 1973-1990.
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Confrontation during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the US missiles were placed by the Soviet Union to protect Cuba from planned US attacks.
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Sputnik
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Series of unmanned space missions launched by the Soviet Union to demonstrate artifical satellites.
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Korean War
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War between North Korea (China) and South Korea (US) when North Korea invaded South to try and pursue communism.
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Iron Curtain
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Boundaries which divided Europe into 2 seperate areas. Warsaw Pact countries and NATO countries.
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Helsinki Accords
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Final conference in 1975 between US, Canada, Soviet Union, and Europe for the relationships between states.
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Nonaligned Nations
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Organization of over 100 states declaring they are not for or against any major powers.
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Detente
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Term used to describe international politics in the 1970s. Relaxing and easy.
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New Economic Policy
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Required farmers to give the govt. a specific amount of raw agricultural products as a tax.
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Third World
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Developing nation, not industrialized, poor, not technoligically advanced.
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Solidarity
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1st noncommunist trade union in a communist country. (Polish)
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Mussolini
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Prime minister and dictator of Italy from 1922-1943 close alli of Nazi Germany.
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Tiananmen Square
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Large plaza near the center of Bejing where famous protests have taken place.
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Gen. William Westmoreland
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Commanded US military operations in Vietnam.
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Douglas MacArthur
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American general that handled Japan invasions during WW2.
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D-Day
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Day in which the allied forces came to liberate Europe from Nazis.
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Hitler
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Chancellor of Germany, founder of the Nazi Party. Comitted genocide.
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