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18 Cards in this Set
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MAO Zedong
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became head of the new communist state of china
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38th parallel
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soviet troops occupied korea north and a line of latitude 1949 line of latuided seperates north and south korea
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korean war
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a conflict beacause north korea forces cross the 30th parallel into south korea starded in 1950 end in 1953
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General douglas macarthur
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former of world war 2 hero in the pacfic served as cammander of all us forces
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truce
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to come to a aggrement to stop fighting
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joseph mccarthy
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a republican seneator from wisconsin he made people scared of the communism
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brinkmanship
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the brink of the war to combat communism inter national politics
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arms race
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the soivet unioun to produce weapons
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H-bomb
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hydrogen bomb
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space race
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a competition beging in 1957 between the soviet unioun and the united states in the exploration of space
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coldwar
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the state of hostilty without direct military conflict that devloped between the united states and the soviet unioun after world war 2
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Nato
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the north atlantic treaty orginzation is a miltary alliance formed in 1949 by ten western european countries the united states and canda
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Fair deal
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a program under harry truman called the new projects to create jobs new public housing and an end to racial discrimanation in hirring truman plan
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contaiment
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the blocking by one nation of athor nations attempts to spread influence especially the efforts of the the united states to block the sperad of soivet communism during the late 1940s and early 1950s
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truman doctrine
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a policy that promised aid to people struggling to resist threats to democrartic freedom
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harry truman
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president and friend of labor
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warshaw pack
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soivet unioun respond to nato in world war 2
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marshall plan
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offered 13 billon dollars and aid to europe
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