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45 Cards in this Set
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What country opened a "Second Front"? |
Germans
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Second Front - After F is G.
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What are the 5 permanent countries in the security counsel get a veto? |
Britain, China, France, Soviet Union, and US.
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Countries in Alphabet order
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HOW MANY permanent countries are in the security counsel that's gets a veto?
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5
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High Five
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What war ended in 1949?
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China Civil War
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CC
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What republic got the seat in the security counsel?
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Republic of China
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Grandma Favorite Soda
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Who is the new international organization in Manhattan, NYC? |
United Nations
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UN
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Who tested the first atomic bomb? And when?
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Soviet Union in 1950.
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Atomic bomb in 19 _ _, Soviet U"nity".
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What was the US atomic bomb used for? |
To scare the Russians
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Ballerina company on Halloween
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Who wrote report to The president? |
George Kennen
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Long telegram
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What policy was used during the Cold War to stop Soviet expansion? |
The Truman Doctrine |
He was a President for the United States. Harry ...
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What is McCarthyism? |
The practice of making unfair allegations or using unfair investigative techniques |
Joseph McCarthysim |
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What is NSC - 68? |
a classified 1950 proposal that the U.S. quadruple defense an military spending in order to counter the Soviet Threat. |
Nitz |
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What is the U.N. Security Council |
Advise the President under the Charter |
S.C. |
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What is the National Security Act? |
Passed in 1947 that recognized the U.S. Military and services in order to better meet the Soviet threat.
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What are chinese volunteers? |
Dutch figure of speech, to pick someone out of a crowd, very often against his will |
"een Chinese vrijwilliger" |
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Integration of armed forces |
Truman makes desegregation of the armed forces an official government policy. |
The president makes a policy |
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What is an Armistice? |
A formal agreement to warn parties to stop fighting. |
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What is a "Massive Retaliation"? |
Saves $$ but limits flexibility. |
Doctrine restricted the President's options too much |
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What is Geneva Accords? |
An agreement that divided the Vietnam War. |
These states were to become fully independent countries, with the last-named partitioned near the 17th parallel into two states pending reunification through "free elections" to be held by July 20, 1956. |
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What is a Domino Theory? |
governed much of U.S. foreign policy beginning in the early 1950s, |
n Southeast Asia, the United States government used the domino theory to justify its support of a non-communist regime in South Vietnam against the communist government of North Vietnam, |
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What is Hungarian Uprising? |
Sums up what the Cold War stands for
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The people of Hungary and the rest of Eastern Europe were ruled over with a rod of iron by Communist Russia and anybody who challenged the rule of Stalin and Russia paid the price. |
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What is the Suez Crisis? |
Erupted after Egypt's nationalization of the British- controlled Suez Canal |
Britain and France found their influence as world powers weakened. |
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What is Sputnik? |
The 1st orbiting space satellite launched by the Soviet. |
A Satellite |
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What is an Missle gap? |
intercontinental range ballistic missile that did not exist |
growing perception in the West, especially in the USA, |
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A "New Frontier" |
Peace Corps Alliance in progress and apart of Cold War. |
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Flexible Response |
A doctrine that provided for variety of military and political strategies. |
The president use this to end the spread of communism. |
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What is Green Berets? |
United States Army Special Forces |
They're the nimble fingertips of the United States military and the "quiet professionals" of the U.S.
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What is the Cuban Missile Crisis? |
The Cuban Missle Crisis was a 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba. |
A Missile that was offer to remove the Cuban missiles in exchange for the U.S. promising not to invade Cuba. |
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The Berlin Wall |
the Berlin Wall was the defining symbol of the Cold War, separating families and keeping the people from jobs and opportunity in the west. |
most powerful and enduring symbols of the Cold War. |
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The Escalation in Vietnam |
Escalation of the war resulted in some immediate success for the struggle in the South. |
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Johnson Administration " Great Society" |
LBJ sponsored the largest reform agenda since Roosevelt's New Deal. |
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Gradual Escalation |
LBJ strategy in Vietnam |
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Tet Offensive |
a coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam |
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Laos |
to shut down to chik mix trail |
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Nixon goes to china |
Only Nixon could have gone to china |
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Shangha Communique |
ter Qiao Guanhua. The communiqué pledged both countries to work for "normalization" of relations, and to expand "people-to-people contacts" and trade opportunities |
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Origin of the Cold War |
Rivarly between the U.S. and Soviet Union |
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Yalta Conference |
Free elections in Poland. "Friendly" governments on Stalins |
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Atomic Diplomacy |
Technology shared with Britain. |
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Containments |
U.S. foreign policy that argued that the Soviet Union needed to be contained. |
Defines Everything the US did |
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Marshall Plan |
Rebuild western Europe after World War II |
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TiToisum |
Yugo. Communists begins national unity. |
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Berlin Airlift |
Supply everything South Berlin needed by plance |
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NATO/ Warsaw Pact |
A mutual pact of defense against the USSR Eastern block countries. |
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Nuclear USSSR |
Should have been 20 years. |
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