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Helsinki Accords
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1975; 35 nations signed it; stated basic human rights (speech, religion, fair trial, earn a living, fair trial)
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OPEC
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Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries; halted oil exports and raised oil prices in 1973
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Berlin Wall
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Built by Eastern Germany; built in 1961 and knocked down in 1989; split democractic West Berlin from communist East Berlin to keep the communists from escaping to the democratic side
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Brown v. Topeka Board of Education
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1954; Supreme Court decision that said segretated schools were unconstitutional
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Nikita Krushchev
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new Soviet leader after Stalin; 1956; dennounced Stalin; wanted a peace with the west
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Boris Yeltsin
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1991; replaces Gorbachev; 1st President of Russia; faced economic and political turmoil due to change from communism to democracy
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People's Republic of China-Mao Zedong
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Mao defeats Jeng Jieshi and Nationalists to set up the People's Republic of China (communist); 1949-76
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Tianenmen Square massacre
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May 1989 in communist China; students were killed by soldiers after they refused to leave; happened about a month after Berlin Wall fell
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Korean War
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1950-3; spread of communism over the 38th parallel; between North Korea (backed by Zedong) and South Korea (backed by US); no treaty signed, only an armistice
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Vietnam War
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1959-75; Vietnam becomes communist; between communist North Vietnam, headed up by Ho Chi Minh, and South Vietnam, headed by Diem (whom US put into power); US withdraws
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Ho Chi Minh
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Communist and nationalist; wants to unite Vietnam under northern (communist) rule and push Diem out of power; Vietcom
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PLO-Yasir Arafat
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Palestine Liberation Organization, headed up by Arafat; terrorist group that sought establishment of autonomy area to form Palestinian state on Gaza strip
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Yitzak Rabin
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prime minister of Isreal who signed Oslo accord with Arafat; was assasinated by a Jewish student
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Saddam Hussein
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fought war with Iran; invaded Kuwait and started Persian Gulf War; dictator of Iraq
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Nelson Mandela
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liberator of South Africa; was released from prison in 1990 because of trade embargos from US; negociated the reformation of South Africa
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Desmond Tutu
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Church of England; recieved Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent opposition to apartheid
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Fidel Castro-Cuban revolution
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set up a communist dictaorship in Cuba in 1959
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Bay of Pigs
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JFK and anti-Castro exiles had a plot to overthrow Castro; invasion force landed at Bay of Pigs and was crushed in 1961; leads to Cuban Missle Crisis
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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starts Good Neighbor Policy with South America; implements the New Deal to pull the US out of the Depression; signed the Atlantic Charter with Churchill
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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planned D-Day as Supreme Allied Commander
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Douglas MacArthur
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leader of Pacific area of WWII and captures Phillipines; also involved in Korean War
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Marshall Plan
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implemented by Truman to strengthen democratic governments to prevent Germany from becoming communist in its weakness and bring Europe down too
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Marshall Plan
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implemented by Truman to strengthen democratic governments to prevent Germany from becoming communist in its weakness and bring Europe down too
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Harry S. Truman-Containment Policy
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issued the Truman Doctrine on March 12, 1947; conatinment meant limiting communism to the areas already under Soviet control
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European Union
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1980s and 1990s; a European economic organization that helped unifty Europe economically; introduced the Euro
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NATO
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization; formed by US, Canada, and nine Western European countries in 1949; a military alliance to come to each others aid in case of war
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Warsaw Pact
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1955; Soviet Union formed own military alliance; included USSR and seven satellites in Eastern Europe; mainly a weapon to keep satellites in order
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United Nations
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April 1945; national organization to ensure peace; different from League of Nations because it had the United States backing and a military to enforce its rules
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