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24 Cards in this Set
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Yalta Conference
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(Feb. 1945) Meeting between the BIG THREE: Stalin (USSR), Roosevelt (USA), and Churchill (Britain) about the postwar settlement of Europe, esp. Poland; Stalin promised to support the US in its fight against Japan after the USSR defeated Germany
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COMECON
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Council for Mutual Economic Assistance; an economic organization of countries in the Eastern Bloc and other communist countries spearheaded by Moscow; purpose was to strengthen the international socialist relationship between lesser European states and the USSR
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Berlin Airlift
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(1948-49) Efforts by the Allies to provide citizens west of the Berlin Wall with supplies daily; flew over and dropped supply packages
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Korean War
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(1950)
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Gulf of Tonkin Incident
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(August 1964) Allegedly North Vietnamese troops fired torpedoes at a US Naval ship; however, no torpedo casings were found after the second alleged attack
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Strategic Defense Initiative
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(SDI) US defense mechanism to protect against any nuclear missiles; devised by President Reagan
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USSR Atomic Bomb
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first tested in August 1949
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Formation of NATO
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1949 (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) the US committed to defending western Europe; originally 12 countries
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Warsaw Pact
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(1955)a peace treaty for Europe; members were to act in defense of each other and it created a unified government under USSR control
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Tet Offensive
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(1968) Military efforts between the North Vietnamese forces and the People's Republic of Vietnam began to effect the civilian life in South Vietnam
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Kitchen Debate
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(1959) Interchanges between Nixon and Khrushchev at the American National Exhibition in Moscow
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Invasion of Afghanistan
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(Dec. 1979) invade by the Soviet Union under Brezhnev
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Khrushchev's Secret Speech
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(1956) a part of Khrushchev's attempts to de-Stalinize the USSR; in his speech, he formally denounced Stalin (after Stalin's death) in front of the Communist Party
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Suez Canal Crisis
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(October 1956) The US and Britain withdrew their financial support to building the Aswan Dam. In return, Egypt, who had control of the canal, decided to nationalize the canal. Therefore, the US and Britain could not control the canal as they had hoped.
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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(1962) a scare tactic issued by the Soviet Union (Khrushchev) through Cuba in attempts to scare the US (Kennedy); lasted for 13 days; a peace treaty between Khrushchev and Kennedy is a formed as a result.
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SALT I
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(Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty, 1972) aimed at creating stability and capping the competition between the US and the USSR; limited the number of launchers each side could have and limited each side to two anti-missile defense systems
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Sputnik
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the robotic spacecraft missions launched by the Soviet Union
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Glasnost
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("openness") the Soviet Union promised to maintain a class window policy with the US in order to prevent further tensions
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COMINFORM
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(Communist Information Bureau, Sept.1947) Soviet-dominated organization of Communist parties to create support against the United States; in response to the Marshall Plan
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Formation of the People's Republic of China
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(Oct. 1949) introduced by Mao who wanted to preserve the Chinese traditions from the effects of the China Communist Party.
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Prague Spring
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(1968) a period of political liberation in Czechoslavakia after its rule by the Soviet Union
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Helsinki Accords
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(1975) signed by the superpowers and the Europeans; legalized the European borders that existed at the end of WWII, encouraged trade between the two sides, and promoted free movement of the people
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Solidarity
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a non-Communist trade union spurred by the discontent of the workers
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Sino-Soviet Split
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(1959-1961) the worsening of tensions between the People's Republic of China and the USSR; Khruschev had restricted aid to Albania because they decided to support China in opposing the Soviet revisions
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