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Set: Cold War

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All 28 Terms

	Term	Definition
	President Truman	us president during start of cold war
	Joseph Stalin	the ussr leader in the beginning of the war
	President Eisenhower	signed the truce that brought an armed peace along the border of South Korea
	President Kennedy	president during, the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Space Race, the American Civil Rights Movement and early events of the Vietnam War.
	Khrushchev	After Joseph Stalin died _______ became the leader of USSR
	President Johnson	us president, authorized sending of combat troops to Vietnam
	President Nixon	pulled US out of war in Vietnam
	Mao Zedong	the person who led the communist revolution in CHINA
	Ho Chi Minh	took control of N. Vietnam, supported communism
	Fidel Castro	led the communist revolution in CUBA
	President Reagan	started "star wars" escalated the Cold war (hint: he used to be an actor)
	Gorbachev	last head of USSR, made many reforms that gave people more freedom
	President George H.W. Bush	president when the Cold War ended
	Cold war	the competition between the us and the ussr over which nation would dominate the post-war era
	marshall plan	US gave Europe money to rebuild after WWII
	truman doctrine/containment	US would stop communism from spreading to new nations
	satellite nation	a nation that appears to be independent but is really controlled by another nation (in this case the USSR-everything revolves around the USSR hint hint)
	iron curtain	the imaginary border between communist and capitalist Europe (or east and west)
	domino theory	the fear that if one nation in a region went communist, others would follow
	N.A.T.O. North Atlantic Treaty Organization	us, canada, western europe belonged to...
	Warsaw pact	ussr and eastern europe part of...
	M.A.D.	mutually assured destruction
	McCarthyism	the intense anti-communist suspicion led by Joseph McCarthy (also called red scare)
	Vietnaminzation	When Nixon tried to encourage S. Vietnam to take more responsibility. He replaced American soldiers with S. Vietnam ones.
	Detente	the permanent relaxation in international affairs during the cold war
	S.A.L.T.	Strategic Arms Limitation Talks- the limitation of weapons
	Sputnik	the first man made satellite sent into outer space (sent by ussr)
	Star Wars	the missile defense system

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Terms	28
Creator	katelee168
Created	May 5, 2008
Groups	Study Group, CHAT, GT English 7 Hackers, C Pod peeps, RCMS general group, RCMS7, RCMS B/C Pod General, The Phoenix's Knowledgeable Notebook
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btw this is not all that you need to know, i cant exactly type up the questions so you guys will have to do that on ur own.

kAt

I edited somethings... not like anyone's ever gonna come back here, but you guys already took the test today, and I'm taking it tomorrow. haha! :D Diana~DD

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fireshark : oh...

fireshark : what it it then

Phoenix7 : wait

fireshark : i know he's the ussr leader

Phoenix7 : during missile crisis

fireshark : but what else do we have to him

fireshark : i know that too

fireshark : ik

Phoenix7 : that's it

fireshark : that' it?

fireshark : ok

Phoenix7 : i have to go now....cya