Cold War
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- Vietnam Conflict
- 1.Us military lossed support of people 2. North Vietnam became a Communist country
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- 1. Might go to War. 2. could launch Nuclear weapons
- "Iron Curtain"
- symbol of cold war
- Neo-Nazi
- refers to post-World War II ideologies, political movements, and social movements seeking to revive Nazism
- Coalition
- Temporary alliance of various political parties
- Great Leap Forward
- Urged Chinese peasants to make superhuman efforts to increase farm output
- Five-year Plan
- Plan to reconsruction in China after the Great Leap Foward
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Leader after Yelstin
- Détente
- Period of Relaxation from Tension
- People's Republic of China
- Chinese who fled to Tawain
- Glasnost
- Policy of openness instituted by Soviet leader in the 1980's
- Continiment
- Cold War policy of limiting Communism to areas already under Soviet control
- Tiananmen Square
- Protesters where shot and killed
- Cold War
- Causes-Fall of Communism, fall of USSR, and economic and foreign policy troubles
- Cambodia
- 1.North Vietnam wanted them to become communist so they helped them int their Civil War
- Korean War
- 1. North Korea is Communist 2. Allied with China and Soviets
- Berlin Airlift
- US dropped off supplies to Germans in Est Berlin
- Boris Yeltsin
- Leader after Krushchev
- Commune
- Community in which property is held in common, living quarters are shared, and physical needs are provided in exchange for work assigned jobs
- Cultural Revolution
- Chinese revolution b/t communists and nationalists
- Dissident
- Someone who speaks out against the Gov't
- Chinese Communist Revolution
- 1.Communism in China 2. Communist allied with Soviets
- Division of Germany
- 1. Germany split in half 2. Berlin split in half
- Checyna
- A region in the Caucasus Mountains
- Embargo
- Ban on trade
- Vladimir Putin
- Leader after Gorbachev
- Fall of USSR
- Causes-The Gorbachev Revolution
- Berlin Blockade
- Soviets blocked US aid to East Berlin
- cease-fire
- Halt in fighting
- Perestorkia
- Restructing of the Soviet Governement and the economy in the 1980's
- Euro
- Common currency used by members nations of the European Union
- Kim Jong II
- Leader of North Korea-Communist
- Nikita Krushchev
- Leader of USSR after Stalin died
- Default
- Fail to make payments
- Truman Doctrine
- Made clear that the US would resist Soviet expansion in Europe
- Nuclear Test ban policy
- Stop testing nuclear bombs in the atmosphere
- Collectivization
- Pooling of land and labor in an attempt to increase efficiency
- "Little Red Book"
- Book that praised Mao
- Syngman Rhee
- South Korea's leader
- Berlin Wall
- Wall put up by Soviets to keep East Berlin's in East Berlin
- Afghan War
- USSR invaded Afghan to gain some control in the Middle East
- Ho chi minh
- Led Japan against French forces who were trying to recapture Indochina
- Chancellor
- Prime Minister
- Four Modernization
- Emphasized agriculture, industry, science, and defense in China
- Arms race
- 1.Nuclear war 2. Cuban Missile Crisis
- Khmer Rouge
- Overthrew Cambodian Gov't
- Berlin wall
- 1. Communism in East Berlin 2.Berlin Wall
- Domino Theory
- Belief that if one nation fell to communism, neighboring countries would fall to it too
- Yalta Conference
- Conference that set German Borders
- NATO
- Military alliance b/t US and Canada
- Satellite
- Independent state
- Soviet Expansion into Eastern Europe
- 1. Spread Communsim
- Helmut Kohl
- chancellor when the Berlin Wall fell
- Marshall Plan
- US aid to European Deomcracies
- Warsaw Pact
- Military alliance between Communist countries