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40 Cards in this Set
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a clash of ideas between Western and Communist nations that began after WWII and lasted until 1991
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cold war
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what country experienced an incredible recovery known as the economic miracle
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West Germany
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who rejected socailism and embraced the principles of the free market
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Adenauer
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Charles de Gualle become president of what country and established the Fifth Republicin 1958
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France
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McArthur gave what country a constitution and helped to establish a democratic government
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Japan
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what plan was to stabiliz and to distribute funds that enabled Europe to rapidly rebuild and retool for strong economic recovery
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Marshall Plan
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what country had a welfare system that the cost of these policies are high taxes and high unemployment
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France
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what country became one of those nations that struggled to establish a successful democracy, endured the civil war, and quickly joined the NATO
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Greece
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what league original intent was to protect its members nation from soviet aggression
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NATO
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on what island did Chiang establish the Republic of China
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Taiwan
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who was the first leader of China
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Mao Zedong
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communist China developed animosity toward who
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the Soviets
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Mao announced in 1958 that a new economic plan that was known as what
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Great Leap Forward
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what 2 things did Mao intend to double the production from that of the previous year
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steel and agricultural products
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Mao unleashed a political purge known as what in 1966
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Cultural Revolution
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Mao tryed to purge what kind of elements from China and this did not stop until his death in 1976
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anti-communist
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protestors filled what in the spring of 1989 in the Chinese capital
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Tiananmen Square in Beijing China
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during the Berlin Blockade, the Allies divided Germany into how many zones
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four
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during the Korean war the entry of one hundred thousand what kind if troops preserved North Korea from total defeat
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Chinese communist
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this infusion of troops surprised the UN troops and forced them back across the...
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38th parallel
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during the fall if 1962, the U.S. descovered soviets had placed missiles in what country
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Cuba
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what was the communist leader who resisted French efforts and declared Veitnam independent
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Ho Chi Minh
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Veitnamese communist French efforts to regain this colony at what battle
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Battle of Dien Bien Pho
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who became the first nation to harness the power of the atom
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the United States
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what was the first man-made satellite launched by the Soviets and gave what country a teporary advantage in the space race
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Sputnik;Russia
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what is the region that remained neutral and did not ally themselves with the free or the communist power
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third world
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who led a movement known as passive resistence to achieve Indian independence
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Mohandas Ganchi
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what was this African nation called that became the first nation to achieve independence
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Ghana
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what declaration issued by British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour, declared the British government favored the idea of the homeland for the Jewish people; it became the first official recognition by a world power the Jews needed a land to call their own
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The Balfour Declaration
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who had governed what country as a mandate following WWI
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British;Palestine
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what 2 nations recongnized the nation of Isreal
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United States and the Soviet Union
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what war did Isreal smash the imminent Arab threat
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Six-Day War
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in 1979 what country force invaded Afghanistan
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Russian
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who was the first lady to lead the Conservative Party in Great Britian to victory
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Margaret Thatcher
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he became the fortieth president of the United States in 1980
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Ronald Reagan
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he was a Polish electrical technician, led the Polish workers to form an anti-Communist movement that comdined labor, the Roman Catholic Church, and Polish nationalism to oppose Soviet domination
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Lech Walesa
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following Stalin's death,who ruled the Soviet Union until 1964 and was voted out of his office while he was on vacation
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Nikita Krushchev
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who emerged as the leader of the Soviet Union and the people elected him as president of the Soviet Union
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Mikail Gorbachev
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he allowed what kind of ownership and released thousands of political prisoners
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private
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what 5 countries broke away thier Soviet Union masters and declared their independence
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Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, and Poland
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