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Three organs that make up UN
General Assembly
Security Council
Secretariat
what were the two sides of the "Cold War"
what was the neutral party
"free world"
"Communist bloc"
"Third World"
three people who passed atomic bomb secrets
Julius Rosenberg
Ethel Rosenberg
Klaus Fuchs
policy declaring that the United States would aid any free nation to resist communist aggression
Truman Doctrine (policy of containment)
organization formed in 1949 to provide defense against the threat of communism
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
military alliance of the Soviet Union and Eastern European
Warsaw Pact
who replaced Stalin as the Soviet director
(he denounced Stalin's tactics and gave impression Soviet Communism was mellowing)
Nikita Khrushchev
what symbol of Soviet oppression was built in Eastern Europe in 1961
Berlin Wall
three conservative British prime ministers during the 1950's and 1960's
Winston Churchill
Anthony Eden
Harold Macmillan
Who was the leader of the free french government during WWII
Charles de Gaulle
what saved over 2 1/4 million West Berlin from starvation
Berlin Airlift
Konrad Adenauer was a leader of what country
West Germany
who was the director of Britain's Nuclear research program
Klaus Fuchs
Director of Yugoslavia that established his own brand of communism
Marshal Tito
global conflict between the free world and the communist block
"Cold War"
what common market did western Europe form
European Economic Community (EEC)
Chinese Nationalist leader
Chiang Kai-shek
Chinese Communist leader
Mao Tse-tung
who led the US envoy to China
George C. Marshall
who was the North Korean Communist leader
Kim Il Sung
Korea is divided by what line
38th parallel
When did the Korean War begin
June 25, 1950
the battle line in the South Eastern corner of the Korean peninsula
Pusan Perimeter
communist gangs of Chinese young people
Red Guards
what island did Fidel Castro use to invade the South American Mainland
Grenada
communist revolutionaries of Nicaragua
Sandinistas
who was the President of Argentina
Juan Perón
who is the communist leader in Chile
Salvador Allende
when did Israel become a nation
1948
Israel's first president
Chaim Weizmann
Who was Israel's first prime minister
David Ben-Gurion
first African nation south of the Sahara to gain independence
Ghana
Name the agreement by Israel to withdraw from the Sini Peninsula
Camp David Accords
The Republic of Congo was renamed what in 1971
Zaire
who is the leader of the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization)
Yassir Arafat
organization formed a monopoly to control the supply and price of oil
OPEC
name the two nations that signed the Camp David Accords
Israel
Egypt
the Italian communist terrorist group
Red Brigades
the name of the second five year plan in China
Great Leap Forward
What Mo Tse-tung launch in China to purge China of "Counter-revolutionaries" and foreign influences
Cultural Revolution
who lead Indochinese Communist party of North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
what allowed the U. S. to have involvement in the Vietnam conflicts
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
who commanded the US troupes in Vietnam
William C. Westmoreland
president to send in the first American troupes to Vietnam
president Johnson
what was Saigon, the capitol of South Vietnam, called
Ho Chi Minh City
In 1968 what was the large scale attack launched by Vietminh and Viet Cong
Tet Offensive
"Father of the Hydrogen Bomb"
Edward Teller
French word meaning "reducing tension" or hostility between nations
détente
who ruled after Nikita Khrushchev for the Soviet Union
Leonid Brezhnev
who was president Nixon's assistant for national security affairs
Henry Kissinger
Egyptian president who met with Menachem Begin at Camp David
Anwar el-Sadat
Treaty between U.S. and Soviet Union limiting all nuclear arm production
SALT I
what year was the ceasefire ending the Vietnam conflict signed
January 27, 1973
North Vietnamese supply route through Cambodia
Ho Chi Minh Trail
The leader of Ethiopia that was overthrown by communists
Haile Selassie
the first woman to become prime minister of great Britain
Margret Thatcher
who signed the intermediate nuclear forces treaty with President Reagan in 1987
Mikhail Gorbachev
who loosened the soviet control over eastern Europe
Mikhail Gorbachev
president of the Russian republic
Boris Yeltsin
what country invaded the Falkland Islands in 1982
Argentina
where was the nuclear reactor accident in 1986 that killed 23 people
Chernobyl
in 1991 former republics banded together to form what
Commonwealth of Independent States
policy of racial segregation
apartheid
what did the Reagan doctrine stand for
a policy of attacking communism before it attack and enslave a country
movement of polish nationalists
solidarity
word meaning restructuring
Perestroika
word meaning "openness"
Glasnost
what year was East and West Germany officially reunited
October 3, 1990
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History ch. 26
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