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72 Cards in this Set
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superpowers
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a nation stronger than other powerful nations
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anti-ballistic missiles (ABMs)
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missiles that can shoot down other missiles
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Ronald Reagon
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The United States President that launched a program to build a "Star Wars" missile defense against nuclear attack during the 1980s
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détente
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the relaxation of Cold War tensions during the 1970s
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John F. Kennedy
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the United States president that supported an invasion attempted by U.S. trained Cuban exiles
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ideology
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system of thought and belief
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Nikita Khrushchev
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the new Soviet leader that emerged after Stalins death
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Leonid Brezhnev |
Khrushchev'a successor who held power from the mid-1960s until he died in 1982. Under his rule, critics faced arrest and imprisonment |
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Containment |
The U.S. strategy of keeping communism within guys existing boundaries and preventing its further expansion |
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Collectivization |
The forced going together of workers and property into its collectives, such as rural collectives that absorb peasants and their land |
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Great Leap Forward |
A Chinese program from 1958 to 1960 to boost farm and industrial output that failed miserably |
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Cultural Revolution |
A Chinese Communist program in he late 1960s to purge China of non revolutionary tendencies that caused economic and social damage |
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38th parallel |
An imaginary line marking 38 degrees of latitude, particularly he line across the Korean Peninsula, dividing Soviet forces to the north and American forces to the South after WWII |
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Kim Il Sung |
Dictator ruler of North Korea and a communist ally of the Soviet Union |
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Syngman Rhee |
Dictatorial but non communist leader that was backed by the United States (ruled South Korea) |
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Pusan Perimeter |
A defensive line around the city of Pusan, in the southeast corner of Korea, held by South Korean and United Nation forces in the 1950 during the Korean War; marks the farthest advance of Korean forces |
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Demilitarized Zone |
A thin band of territory across the Korean Peninsula separating North Korean forces from South Korean forces; established by the armistice of 1953 |
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Guerrillas |
A soldier in a loosely organized force making surprise raids |
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Guerrillas |
A soldier in a loosely organized force making surprise raids |
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Ho Chi Minh |
A nationalist and communist who had fought the Japanese and French |
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Dienbienphu |
Small town and former French army base in norther Vietnam; site of the battle that ended in a Vietnamese victory, the French withdrawal from Vietnam, and the securing of North Vietnams independence |
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Domino Theory |
The belief that a communist victory in south Vietnam would cause non communist governments across Southeast Asia to fall to communism, like a row of dominos |
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Viet Cong |
Communist rebels in South Vietnam who sought to overthrow South Vietnams government; received assistance from North Vietnam |
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Tet Offensive |
A massive and bloody offensive by communist guerrillas against South Vietnamese and American forces on Tet, the Vietnamese New Year, 1968; helped turn American public opinion against military involvement in Vietnam |
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Khmer Rouge |
A political movement and a force of Cambodian communist guerrillas had gained power in Cambodia in 1975 |
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Pol Pot |
Brutal dictator that led the Khmer Rouge which unleashed a reign of terror |
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Mujahedin |
Muslim religious warriors |
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Mikhail Gorbachev |
An energetic new leader who was eager to bring reforms that came to power in the Soviet Union in 1985 |
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Glasnosts |
"Openness" in Russian; a Soviet policy of greater freedom of expression introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980s |
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Perestroika |
A Soviet policy of democratic and free-market reforms introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980s |
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Lech Walesa |
Leader of the strikes by shipyard workers that organized Solidarity |
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Solidarity |
A Polish labor union and democracy movement |
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Partition |
A division into pieces |
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Sikhs |
Members of an Indian religious minority |
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Kashmir |
A formerly princely state in the Himalayas, claimed by both India and Pakistan, which have fought wars over its control |
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Jawaharlal Nehru |
Was leader of the Congress Party that worked to turn India into a modern nation. Was Indias prime minister from 1947 to 1964 and promoted economic growth and social change |
Under his rule food output and Indias population rose |
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Dalits |
People in the lowest classes (Nehru's government set aside jobs and places in universities for them.) |
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Indira Gandhi |
Served as prime minister for most of the years between 1966 and 1984. She led with a firm hand and challenged traditional discrimination against women |
Was assassinated by her body guards bc of what occurred at the Golden Temple |
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Punjab |
State in northwestern India with a largely Sikh population |
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Golden Temple |
The Sikh religions holiest shrine |
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Bangladesh |
Nation east of India that was formerly part of Pakistan |
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Nonalignment |
Political and diplomatic independence from both Cold War powers |
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First world |
Western bloc |
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First World |
Western bloc |
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Secong World |
Soviet bloc |
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Third World |
Member of the non aligned nations (mostly in Asia, Africa, and Latin America) |
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Autocratic |
Representative government with unlimited power |
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Sung San Suu Kyi |
Opposition leader that won the election held by the military in 1990. |
Was put under house arrest |
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Sukarno |
First president of Indonesia's parliamentary government. |
Shifted from democracy to authoritarian rule |
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Sukarno |
First president of Indonesia's parliamentary government. |
Shifted from democracy to authoritarian rule |
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Suharto |
Army general that seized power of Indonesia in 1967. Claimed that communists were responsible for an earlier attempt by military officers to overthrow the government and ordered the slaughter of hundred of Thousands of communists and suspected communists |
Was forced to resign from power in 1998 after a financial crisis |
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Ferdinand Marcos |
Was elected president and abandoned democracy. He became a dictator and cracked down on basic freedoms. Had popular rival, Benigno Aquino murdered |
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Corazon Aquino |
The widow of slain Benigno who won during the election in 1986. |
Economic growth was limited and poverty remained widespread
Philippines has the highest birth rate in Asia which strains resources |
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Savannas |
Grassy plain with irregular patterns of rainfall |
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Coup d'état |
The forcible overthrow of government |
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Islamist |
People who want a government based on Islamic law and beliefs |
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Katanga |
A province is the democratic republic of the Congo with rich copper and diamonds deposits that tried to gain independence from Congo in 1960 |
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Biafra |
Region of southeastern Nigeria that launched a failed bid for independence from Nigeria in 1966, which launched a bloody war |
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Kibbutz |
A collective farm in Israel |
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Kibbutz |
A collective farm in Israel |
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Secular |
Having to do with worldly, rather than religious, matters; non religious |
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Kibbutz |
A collective farm in Israel |
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Secular |
Having to do with worldly, rather than religious, matters; non religious |
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Hejab |
Headscarves and loose fitting, ankle length garments meant to conceal the body |
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Sues Canal |
A canal linking the Red Sea and Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea, which also links Europe to Asia and East Africa |
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Games Abdel Nesser |
Seized power in Egypt in 1952. Ended British and French control by nationalizing of he Suez Canal in 1956 (to modernize Egypt and stop Western domination) |
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Games Abdel Nesser |
Seized power in Egypt in 1952. Ended British and French control by nationalizing of he Suez Canal in 1956 (to modernize Egypt and stop Western domination) |
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A War Sadet |
Nasser successor, who became the first Arab leader to make peace in Israel in 1978. He also weakend ties with the Soviet Union and sought Us aid |
Was assassinated by Muslim Fundamentalists |
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Mohammad Mosaddeq |
Elect prime minister in 1951 and nationalized the foreign owned oil industry |
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Theocracy |
Government run by religious leaders |
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Largest Oil Reserves |
Located in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, and several small states along the Persian Gulf |
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Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
Wanted to end the power of Western oil companies and determine oil production quotas and prices |
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