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82 Cards in this Set
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New York |
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General Assembly, Security Council, Secretariat
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The three major organs of the UN |
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Alger Hiss |
implicated as a spy for the Soviet Union |
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Cold War |
A war fought not with military weapons but with words, diplomacy, and ideology fought by the "free world" against the "Communist bloc" |
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
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were convicted of treason and executed in 1953 |
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Klaus Fuchs |
the director of Britain's nuclear research program who was convicted in 1950 for supplying Moscow with a top-secret trigger mechanism |
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Truman Doctrine |
said the United States would aid any free nation to resist communist aggression
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Marshall Plan |
said the United States would lend money to provide massive economic assistance to rebuild Europe after World War II also known as Europe Recovery Plan |
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Berlin Airlift |
the Americans established this to save 2 1/4 from starvation |
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NATO
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the defense pact formed to prevent further threats of Communism
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Warsaw Pact |
the pact Russia made to counteract NATO
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European Economic Community |
the common market of Western Europe
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Nikita Krushchev |
Leader of Russia denounced Stalin's gruesome tactics giving the false impression that Communism was mellowing |
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Marshal Tito |
the dictator of Yugoslavia who established the Soviet sphere of control |
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1961
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when was the Berlin Wall the symbol of Soviet Oppression in Eastern Europe built
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Konrad Adenauer
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leader of West Germany
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Charles de Gaulle |
leader of the Free French government during World War II |
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Red Brigades
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the group the Communists in Italy organized |
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Chiang Kai-shek
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the Nationalist leader of China |
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Mao Tse-Tung |
the Communist leader of China |
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George C. Marshall |
traveled to China as a special envoy to arrange peace between the Nationalists and Communists |
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Taiwan |
where the Chinese Nationalist went after losing the Chinese Civil War |
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Great Leap Forward |
China's second five year plan |
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Cultural Revolution |
China's attempt to purge the country of all "counter revolutionaries" and foreign influences
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Red Guards |
the group of Chinese young people who formed a gang to prevent Nationalists form coming back to government |
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Kim I1 Sung |
North Korean puppet leader during the Korean War |
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38th Parallel |
the dividing line between Communist and Nationalist China |
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1950
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the year the Korean War began |
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Pusan Perimeter |
the battle line in the southeastern corner of Korea |
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President Truman |
abruptly removed General MacArthur from command in Korea |
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Matthew Ridgeway |
replaced MacArthur as leader in Korea |
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General MacArthur |
said "There is no substitute for victory" |
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Fidel Castro |
Communist Cuban leader |
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John F. Kennedy |
president of the United States during the Bay of Pigs |
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Sandinistas |
the group which formed from Cuban aid in Nicaragua
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Juan Peron
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elected president of Argentina |
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Salvador Allende
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president of Communist Chile |
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May 14, 1948 |
the day when Israel became a state |
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David Ben-Gurion |
Israel's first prime minister |
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OPEC |
formed in 1960 as a monopoly designed to control the supply and price of oil |
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Begin and el-Sadat |
Met at the Camp David Accords |
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Israel |
agreed to withdraw from the Sinai Peninsula at the Camp David Accords |
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Yassir Arafat
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began the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
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the Shah |
the group in Iran that was overthrown in 1979
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Ghana
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first African nation south of the Sahara to gain independence |
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Zaire |
the Republic of Congo in 1971 |
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Haile Selasse I
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leader in Ethiopia who was overthrown by a military coup |
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apartheid |
policy of racial segregation |
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African National Congress |
A group in South Africa influenced by Marxist agitators |
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1975 |
the year the Vietnam War officially ended |
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Ho Chi Minh |
Vietnamese Communist man who formed the Indochinese Party |
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Ho Chi Minh Trail |
supply route for North Vietnam through Cambodia
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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provided the legal justification for U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam conflict |
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1965 |
President Johnson sent the first American combat troops to South Vietnam |
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William Westmoreland
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the military general of South Vietnam
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Tet Offensive |
the great military offense in 1968 which though American and South Vietnamese troops inflicted overwhelming losses on North Vietnamese the press showed it as a victory for North Vietnam |
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policy of limited warfare |
caused Communist victory in Vietnam |
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1973 |
the year the cease-fire agreement was finally signed in Vietnam |
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Ho Chi Minh City |
the capital of Vietnam was renamed from its original name Saigon
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Teller |
father of the Hydrogen Bomb |
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detente |
reducing of tension |
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Henry Kissinger |
President Nixon's assistant for national security affaits |
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Leonid Brezhnev |
succeeded Khrushchev as leader of the Soviet Union |
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SALT treaties
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United States and the Soviet Union's agreement of limiting arms |
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Margaret Thatcher
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first woman prime minister |
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Falkland Islands |
islands which Argentina unsuccessfully invaded |
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Reagan Doctrine |
said it would strengthen America's military an offensive policy of preemptive strikes to stop Communism before it could enslave a nation
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Grenada |
the place where the Reagan Doctrine sent troops to prevent Castro from taking as a military base to invade South America |
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KAL007 |
South Korean airliner that was shot down by Soviet fighter jets |
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Chernobyl |
place in Soviet Ukraine that suffered from a nuclear reactor meltdown |
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Lech Walesa |
leader of the Polish Solidarity |
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Mikhail Gorbachev |
leader of the Soviet Union when Europe freed Russia from the Soviets |
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Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty |
the treaty which was made when Gorbachev met President Reagan |
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Perestroika
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restructuring |
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Glasnost |
openness |
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Solidarity
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government that free elections in Poland brought to power
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1990 |
the date East and West Germany were officially reunited
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Nicolae Ceausescu |
Cruel dictator of Romania |
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Tiananmen Square |
place where China Communists soldiers crushed a demonstration
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Boris Yeltsin
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leader of the Russian Republic after the Soviet Union fell |
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United States and Soviet Union
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announced that all economic aid to the Soviet Union would cease if the coup succeeded |
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Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
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the government that the former Soviet Union set up
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