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23 Cards in this Set
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After WWII the US and the Soviet Union realized they needed to control
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Germany
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European Economic recovery from WWII didn't really begin until the US initiated?
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The Marshall Plan
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The Berlin Crisis (Berlin Blocade) made american aware of what?
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We were in a new war, the "Cold War"
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H.U.A.C. stand for?
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House Un-American Activites Committee
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The HUAC catipulted the political career of what American Pesident?
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Richard Nixon
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What was the foundation of the U.S. foreign policy throughout the "Cold War"?
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The Truman Doctine
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Who fought the Korean War?
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US - North Korea - China
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Who was left out of NATO
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Communist regimes
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The Belin Wall was raised in?
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1960
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What event was the closes the the US and the Soviet Union ever came to open Nuclear War?
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Cuban Missle Crisis
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In comparison to Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev was considered?
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More Flexible
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Ostpolitik was initiated by the?
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West Germans
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Which Ccountry left NATO in the 1960's to pursue its own foreign policies?
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France
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Which European treaty laid the foundation for the EU in 1992?
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Maastricht Treaty
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When Khrushchev's took over in 1955, he denounced the methods of his predecessor, Stalin by:
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Giving the Sevret Speech
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Khrushchev’s faiures at home and abroad led to his repalcement by?
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Brezhev
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For the most part under Brezhnev, the Soviet Union?
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Staganated economically and Socially
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The policies of Perestroika(restructuring) and Glasnost (Opening) were initiated by?
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Gorbachev
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The first President of the "Russian Republic" was?
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Boris Yetlsin
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What are the reasons for decolonisation?
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Rising Nationalism in Asia and Africa.
Loss of European Moral Authority Opposition in Europe to continuation of colonies. |
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The Leader of the Struggle in Indochina against the French was?
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Ho Chi Minh
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In Africa, in the 1970s there was a major civil was between white colonialists and native African over control of the country now called?
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Zimbabwe
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While Third World Countries are politically dependent they are?
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Economically dependent on Western industrail countries.
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