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27 Cards in this Set
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the Cold War was primarily the conflict between which two nations |
US and Soviet Union |
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what did Truman WANT IN REGARDS TO Eastern Europe AT THE POTSDAM CONFERANCE |
free elections |
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WHAT DID STALIN WANT IN REGARDS TO Eastern Europe AT THE POTSDAM CONFERANCE |
military buffer zone |
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THE MARSHALL PLAN WAS DESIGNED TO? |
rebuild Europe and restore economic stability |
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THE United States ALLIANCE WITH MOST OF THE Western Europe IS KNOWN AS |
NATO |
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WHAT WAS THE SOVIET RESPONSE TO NATO |
Warsaw Pact |
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WHY DID THE United States HAVE THE PLOICY OF CONTAINMENT |
to stop communism from spreading and keep it in its borders |
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WHAT WAS THE RESPONSE OF THE United States, BRITAIN, AND FRANCE WHEN THE SOVIETS BLOCKADED West Berlin |
Berlin airlift flew in and airdropped supplies |
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WHY DID THE United States GET INVOLVED IN BOTH KOREA AND VIETNAM WARS |
to stop spread of communism |
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THE 38TH PARALLEL MARKS THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN? |
North and South Korea |
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WHY DID THE United States ATTEMPT TO INAVDE CUBA |
to overthrow the communist gov of Castro |
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THE Berlin Wall WAS BUILT IN ORDER TO |
prevent East Germans from defecting |
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WHAT WAS THE ISSUES IN THE CUBAN MISSLE CRISIS |
soviets were putting nuclear weapons in Cuba |
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WHAT THEORY STATES THAT IF ONE COUNTRY BECOMES COMMUNIST, NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES WILL ALSO BECOME COMMUNIST |
domino |
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WHO WAS THE COMMUNIST LEADER OF VIETNAM |
Ho Chi Minh |
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WHY WERE THERE STUDENT PROTESTS ACROSS COLLEGE CAMPUSES IN THE 1970'S |
Vietnam war |
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WHAT HAPPENED DURING DETENTE |
United States and Soviet Union limit nuclear weapons |
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WHAT EVENT ENDS DETENTE |
soviets invade Afghanistan |
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WHY DOES THE United States DEFEND AFGHANSITAN |
to stop soviet aggression and expansion |
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WHAT WAS THE RESULT OF THE 1956 REVOLT IN HUNGARY AND THE 1968 REVOLT IN CZECHOSLAVAKIA? |
soviets invade both countries and crush the revolts |
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WHAT SOVIET LEADER REFORMED THE Soviet Union AND ALLOWED INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENTS TO TAKE PLACE AND WHAT DID HE INVENT |
Mikhail Gorbachev PERISTROIKA(openness) Glasnost(restructuring their economic system) |
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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN GORACHEV STATES THAT THE SOVIETS WILL NOT INTERFERE IN Eastern Europe IN THE LATE 1980S |
Eastern European countries declare independence and overthrow communist Govs |
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IN 1989 THIS LAST SYMBOL OF THE Cold War WAS TORN DOWN |
Berlin Wall |
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WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE SERBIAN POLICY USED TO REMOVE MUSLIMS FROM BOSNIA |
ethnic cleansing |
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WHAT TWO GROUPS WERE FIGHTING IN Northern Ireland |
catholics and Protestants |
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WHAT WAS THE PROBLEM WITH THE CREATION OF ISREAL |
palestinians people already lived there |
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WHAT IS AT THE HEART OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT |
both claim same homeland |
