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the Soviet Union and it's allies
Eastern Bloc
the struggle between the US and the Soviet Union
cold war
the United Staates commitment to resrict the spread of Communism
policy of containment
a new plan of massive economic assistance
Marshall Plan
council for mutual assistance
Comecon
provided daily food and supplies too inhabitants of the western part of the city
Berlin Airlift
North Atlantic Treaty Orgaanization
NATO
20 year mutual defense agreement created by the Soviet Union
Warsaw Pact
Douglas McArthurs offices
SCAP
created a parlimentary democracy that called for the direct election of the diet
MacArthur Constitution
parliment
Diet
huge industrial firms controlled by powerful families
Zaibatsu
the heart of the French colonial empire in Africa
Algeria
legally absorbed
assimilated
lead a group called the Irgun
Menachem Begin
collective farm that exists in Isreal
Kibbutz
Egypts new leader-emphasized land reform, industrialization and expanded rights for women
Nassar
conflict between Isreal, France, Britian and Egypt
Suez Canal
final defeat of European Imperialism
Suez Crisis
means rise of rebirth
Ba'athism
led the Soviet Union
Leonid Brezhnev
stated the Soviet Union would intervine in any satellite nation that seemed to be moving away from communism
Brezhnev Doctrine
"restructuring"
Perestrika
"openness"
Glasnost
became the new leasder of the soviet union began to overhal the soviet political and economic systems.
Gorbachev
president of Russia and new lleader of the reform.
Yeltsin
transition to democracy in czechoslovakia
Velvet Revolution
a campaign of terror and murder intended to drive the Muslims out of areas the Bosnian Serbs claimed.
Ethnic cleansing
headquarters of the U.S military leadership
Pentagon
New York mayor who said "It will be more than we can bear" about the death toll of 9/11
Rudolph Gluliani
America's largest retail chain
Wal-Mart
bin laden's global teroism network "the base"
al Qaeda
New York Stock Exchange
NYSE
prime suspect to the attack of 9/11 national terrorist
Osama bin Laden
emerged in mid. 1990's as a splinter group of fundamentalist muslims
Taliban regime
appointed by pres. Bush to head the office of Homeland sec.
Tom Ridge
secretary of state led us efforts to build an international coalition against terrorism and isolate the Taliban Regime.
Colin Powell
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Last Vocab of Western Civ. 2011
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