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124 Cards in this Set
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What pledged to establish "a general international organization for the maintenance of international peace and security"?
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The Moscow Declaration
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Where were the plans for the UN drawn up?
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Dumbarton Oaks
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Where did representatives draft a charter for the UN?
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San Fransisco
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Where did the first official meeting of the UN General Assembly take place? When?
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London- January 10, 1946
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Where is the permanent location of the UN located?
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New York City
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What are the three major parts of the UN?
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General Assembly, Security Council, and the Secretariat
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Who was the head of Communist Russia's delegation?
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Andrei Gromyko
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Who was an official at the US State Department later implicated as a spy for the Soviet Union and convicted of perjury for denying the transfer of top-secret files?
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Alger Hiss
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What were the three parties in the Cold War?
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Free World, Communist, and the Third World
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What are satellite nations?
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Nations supposedly independent but technically under the dominance of another
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Who was the communist sympathizer who used Lend-Lease shipments to send top-secret information and materials to the Soviets?
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Harry Hopkins
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Who were convicted of treason for send top-secret information of the atomic bomb to the Russians?
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
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Who was the director of Britain's nuclear research program who was convicted for supplying Moscow with a top-secret trigger mechanism?
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Klaus Fuchs
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Who exposed much Communist activity in the American Government?
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Joseph P. McCarthy
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What are people's republics?
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Communist puppet governments
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What countries had "people's republics" in Eastern Europe?
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Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia
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What countries had independent communist government in Easter Europe?
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Yugoslavia and Albania
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How did Winston Churchill describe the oppression in Eastern Europe?
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and 'Iron Curtain'
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What was President Truman's strategy concerning communism?
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Containment
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What policy aided Greece and Turkey resist communism?
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Truman Doctrine
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What was the European Recovery Plan better know as?
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the Marshall Plan
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The American, British, and French occupied parts of Germany formed what free nation?
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West Germany
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What program did Eastern Europe use instead of the Marshall Plan?
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COMECON
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What kept the people of West Berlin alive during the winter of 1948-1949?
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The Berlin Airlift
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When was the North Atlantic Treaty signed?
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April of 1949
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What military alliance did the U.S., Canada, and 10 European countries join?
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the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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After NATO was formed, what alliance did Eastern Europe form?
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the Warsaw Pact
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What did Western Europe form to help in cooperating as a whole against Eastern Europe?
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EEC
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After Stalin died, who was the new leader of Russia?
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Nikita Khrushchev
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What did Khrushchev claim when he began leading Russia?
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A "de-Stalinization" had occurred and he desired a "peaceful coexistence" with the free world.
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Who was the free dictator of Yugoslavia in the 1940's?
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Marshal Tito
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What revolt was ended by the Soviets,
killing over 20,000 people? When? |
The Hungarian Revolt- 1956
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What communist government tried to grant certain civil liberties to their citizens, but the Soviets did not agree and sent 500,000 troops to stop the threat? When?
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Czechoslovakia- 1968
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What was the symbol of Soviet oppression in Eastern Europe?
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the Berlin Wall
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In what year was the Berlin wall built?
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1961
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Who became Chancellor of West Germany?
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Konrad Adenauer
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Which conservative Prime Ministers helped improve Great Britain's economy from 1950-1960?
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Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan
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Who returned to power in France and helped establish the Fifth Republic?
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Charles de Gaulle
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What socialist became president of France after de Gaulle died?
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Francois Mitterand
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Who was Italy's leader after WWII?
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Alcide de Gasperi
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After de Gasperi died, how many coalition governments did Italy have?
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Thirty
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What were the Red Brigades?
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Communist organized terrorist groups
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After the death of Francisco Franco, who became ruler and encouraged democratic rule?
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Juan Carlos
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Who led the Nationalists in the Chinese civil war?
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Chiang Kai-shek
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Who led the Communism in the Chinese civil war?
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Mao Tse-tung
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After he traveled to China, who imposed an arms embargo on the Nationalists?
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George C. Marshall
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Where did Chiang and the Nationalist soldiers flee after the Chinese Civil War?
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Taiwan
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What establishment did Tse-tung set-up on the island of Taiwan? When?
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Republic of China- 1949
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What was Tse-tung's five year plan called?
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the "Great Leap Forward"
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What did Tse-tung launch to purge China of all foreign influences?
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the "Cultural Revolution"
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During the Cultural Revolution, what were the gangs of young people called?
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Red Guards
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How many people did Mao Tse-tung murder?
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40 million
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After Mao's death, what was the name of the group trying to come to power?
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"Gang of Four"
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Who emerged as Communist leader in China after the "Gang of Four"?
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Deng Xaioping
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Who led the Communist puppet regime in North Korea?
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Kim IL-sung
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Who was the first president of South Korea?
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Syngman Rhee
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What year did the Korean War start?
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1950
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Who led the American and UN forces in the Korean War?
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Douglas MacArthur
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To what line were our forces pushed?
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the Pusan Perimeter
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Where did MacArthur land, near Seoul, to push the Communists out of South Korea?
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Inchon
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What is "limited warfare"?
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refusing to use all available military strength to win a complete victory
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When did Stalin die?
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1953
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Who was the Communist dictator in Cuba before Castro?
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Fulgencio Batista
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Who started the "26th of July Movement"?
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Fidel Castro
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Which president canceled the air cover at the Bay of Pigs?
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John F. Kennedy
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When did Castro openly declare Cuba a Communist state?
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May of 1961
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What was the name of the revolutionaries in Nicaragua?
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Sandinistas
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What was the name of the President that the Sandinistas were revolting against?
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Somoza
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What country had the revolt of the Sandinistas against President Somoza?
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Nicaragua
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Who led the military overthrow in Argentina?
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Juan Peron
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Who became the first woman to head a government in the Western Hemisphere?
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Isabel Peron
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In what country did the first Marxist come to power through an elective process?
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Chile
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Who was the first Marxist voted in to office through an elective process?
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Salvador Allende
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Who assumed office after Allende?
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Augusto Pinochet
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What was found in Mexico in the late 1970s that increased their economic potential?
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Oil
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When did the reawakening of Arab nationalism occur?
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1914
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When did the Israeli state emerge?
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1948
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What gave the American President permission to assist any country in the Middle East who requested it against aggression from any Communist country?
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Eisenhower Doctrine
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Who led Israel against the Arabs in the Six Day War?
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Moshe Dayan
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What war occurred after the Six day War?
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Yom Kippur War
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What organization caused the Arab oil embargo?
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OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Country)
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Who signed the Camp David Accords?
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Menachem Begin and Anwar elSadat
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What was the first African nation south of the Sahara to gain independence?
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Ghana
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Who was the prime minister of Ghana?
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Kwame Nkrumah
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Where did civil war break and the leader was Patrice Lumumba?
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Republic of the Congo
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Who was killed along with 28 other missionaries minutes before the paratroopers landed?
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Dr. Paul Carlson
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What was the Republic of the Congo renamed?
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Zaire
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Who was overthrown by a coup in Ethiopia?
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Haile Selassie I
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What is racial segregation called?
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apartheid
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What was the ANC?
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African National Congress
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Who was the major Vietnamese communist?
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Ho Chi Minh
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What were Ho Chi Minh's forces called?
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Vietminh
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Who became president of South Vietnam?
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Hgo Dinh Diem
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What were the Communists called that were in South Vietnam?
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Viet Cong
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What was the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
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a supply line through Cambodia used for the Communists
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What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
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gave the president power to "protect our servicemen" in Vietnam
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In what year did the first American combat troops are in South Vietnam?
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1965
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Who was the commander in South Vietnam?
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William Westmoreland
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Who was the "Father of the Hydrogen Bomb"?
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Teller
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Who invented the hydrogen bomb?
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Edward Teller
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What does 'detente' mean?
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the idea of reducing tension
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Who ended the American opposition to China's membership in the UN?
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Henry Kissinger
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Who took over the Soviet Union after Khrushchev 'retired'?
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Leonid Brezhnev
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What did the Soviet Union agree to that said that they would limit the production of nuclear arms?
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Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Treaty
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What was one of the most brutal "wars of liberation"?
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Invasion of Afghanistan
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Who was Britain's fist woman prime minister?
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Margaret Thatcher
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What did Ronald Reagan believe about the economy?
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trade and business should be free from government interference
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What was the most extensive naval conflict since WWII? When?
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Falklands War- 1982
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What was the Reagan Doctrine?
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an offensive policy of preemptive strikes to stop Communism BEFORE it could attack
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What did the Communists plan to do with Grenada?
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start a military base to invade the mainland of South America
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What was the plane that was shot down by the Soviets, killing almost 270 people?
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KAL 077
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What was the Strategic Defense Initiative?
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a system of space-age weaponry designed to destroy enemy intercontinental ballistic missiles in flight
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What were the nationalists called who stood up to the Soviets? Who led them?
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Solidarity- Walesa
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Who came to power as the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985?
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Gorbachev
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What did the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) do in Europe?
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it removed all of the missile sights for the U.S. and the Soviets
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Where did the nuclear reactor contaminate the region in Ukraine?
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Chernobyl
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When did the Communists begin to lose control of Eastern Europe?
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1989
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When was the Berlin Wall opened?
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November 9,1989
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Which part of the UN has five permanent members?
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Security Counsel
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Where did 50 nations gather before the official first meeting for the UN?
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San Fransisco
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What Doctrine allowed money to go to any country that wanted to fight Communist aggression?
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Truman Doctrine
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What was the Second five-year plan called?
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The Great Leap Forward
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What was the attempt to purge China of all revolutionaries?
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Cultural Revolution
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Who led the Gang of Four?
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Mou se Tung's wife
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