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23 Cards in this Set
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Fidel Castro |
He rose to power with the help of the US, but later created communism in Cuba. |
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Perestroika |
Gorby's economic reorganization, which gave people incentives to work harder |
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The US used the sinking of a US ship near Vietnam as an excuse |
Gulf of Tonkin Incident |
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Marshall Plan |
US loans/aid to countries devastated by ww2, USSR opposed. |
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Molotov Plan |
Competing loan/ and plan from USSR |
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Bandung |
Conference in Indonesia that attempted to create a 3rd force of nonaligned |
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Containment |
The idea that the "Domino" theory of spreading communism in former democratic needed to be stopped |
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Demilitarization Zone |
Border between Korea. |
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Depositees |
city dwellers transported to collective farms, lowest class in Cambodia. |
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Prague Spring |
August 5th 1968 Czech attempts to relax communist policies by allowing free speech. |
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Dubcek |
President that lead this movement in Czech. |
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Khmer Rouge |
Cambodian group that believed western people were a poison to communism |
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Chams |
Testers for torture in Cambodia. |
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SALT |
Conference 5 year agreement was created by the US and the USSR that limited weapons |
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Autonomous Areas |
Regions inside Chinas Border |
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Truman Doctrine |
Policy stated that the US would support countries that rejected communism. |
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Glasnost |
People should have the right to criticize the gov't "openness" |
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Vietcong (VC) |
Ho chi Minh created these communist forces to fight Diem. |
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Great Leap Forward |
Mao's failed attempt to accelerate communization of China w/ rapid change. |
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Self-Immolation |
Peaceful protest, Buddhist monk lit himself on fire. |
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Destalinization |
attempted to destroy Stalins legacy. |
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Nikita Krushnev |
letter of USSR after Stalin. |
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Sandinistas |
Communist group from Nicaragua. |
