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Stalin
Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union.
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United Nations
The United Nations was a group of 50 nations that met in San Francisco to draft a charter.
HS: The UN played a bigger role in world affiars than the League of Nations.
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Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was the idealogical barrier that separated the Eastern bloc from the NATO countries.
HS: The Iron Curtain showed what a great leader Churchill was.
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Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was the United States policy trying to contain the spread of communism.
HS: The Truman Doctrine led to the Marshall Plan.
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The Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was a massive aid package offered by the U.S. to Europe to help rebuild.
HS: Normally when a country wins a war of conquest, they take over that country but in this the U.S. helped the country that lost the war to rebuild.
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European Economic Cooperation
The European Economic Cooperation was an organization of European nations set up to give postwar US aid.
HS: This organization stimulated trade and cooperation.
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Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was a military opertion that brought food and other goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany had cut off its supply routes.
HS: It was the first time the U.S. and its allies could beat a blockade by air.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO, was a military alliance between several North Atlantic states to safeguard them from the presumed threat of the Soviet Unit's communist bloc.
HS: The U.S. entry was one of the biggest commitments we had ever made.
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Peoples Republic of China
The Peoples Republic of China is communist China located in the populated Asia.
HS: The People's republic of China came about with the fall of the era of emperors. It split the country.
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Korean War
The Korean War was between North and South Korea
HS: They fought until a stalemate and that is why we have North and South Korea and it was the first war after the atomic bomb was devoloped that it wasn't used.
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Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh was the president of North Vietnam.
HS: Ho Chi Minh led Vietnam to beat the French.
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Explosion of the first hydrogen bomb
The United States tested the first hydeogen bomb in the Marshall Islands.
HS:The first hydrogen bomb was the precursor to the nuclear bomb.
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KGB (Committee for State Security)
The KGB was the Russian secret police.
HS: The KGB were hated and feared by everyone in the USSR.
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Conference of Geneva Accords
The Geneva Accords conference focused on resolving war between the French and the Democratic Republic of the Vietnamese.
HS: The Geneva Accords stated the Vietnam was independent.
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Khrushchev
Nikita Khrushchev led the Soviet Union.
HS: Hehelped de-stalinize the Soviet Union.
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Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a mutual defense alliance between the Soviet Union and seven satellites in Eastern Europe.
HS: The Warsaw Pact had better weapons than NATO.
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Vietnam
Vietnam is a country in Southeast Asia. The Vietnam War was between communist North Vietnam and anti-communist Southern Vietnam.
HS: The War lasted longer than the US expected and the US lost and were looked differently to the world.
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Suez Canal/ Nasser
Nasser, the president of Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal.
HS: The Suez Canal is the main sea route from Europe to the Pacific and it was an important trade and strategic route.
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Sputnik
Sputnik was the first satellite to orbit the Earth launched by the Soviets.
HS: It was the first satillite to orbit the Earth, even before the U.S.
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Berlin Wall is erected
The East German government closed up the borders to install barbed wire and fences throughout Berlin.
HS: It split Berlin into two East and West Berlin.
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Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba.
HS: We averted nuclear war by making the Soviets back down.
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Brezhnev
Leonid Brezhnev was the leader of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union.
HS: Brezhnev was one of the most powerful political leaders in the Soviet Union.
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Tet Offensive
Tet Offensive was a massive and bloody offensive by communist guerillas against South Vietnamese and Americans forces on Tet.
HS: The Tet Offensive helped turn Americans against military involvement in Vietnam.
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Helsinki Accords
Helsink Accords was a political and human rights agreement signed in Helsinki, Finland, by western european countries
HS: The Helsinki Accords helped end the Cold War by producing a document that eased tensions.
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Iranian hostage crisis
The Iranian hostage crisis was when Iran kept Americans hostage for 444 days until Jimmy Carter became president.
HS: This event showed the downfall of President Carter and it made us want to take over Iran.
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Russian Invasion of Afghanistan
The Soviets war in Afghanistan was fought between afganistan rebels called mujahideen and the Soviet supported Afghanistan government.
HS: The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan led to the Geneva Accords.
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Moscow Olympics
The United States boycotted the Moscow Olympics because of the Soviet's invasion of Afghanistan.
HS: It was the first and only time that the US had boycotted the Olympics.
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Lech Walesa and the Solidarity Movement in Poland
Lech Walesa and the Solidarity Movement in Poland was a movement to separate Poland from the Soviet Union.
HS: Lech Walesa and the Solidarity Movement in Poland was the first successful movement to separate a Soviet satellite state from the Soviets.
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Los Angeles Olympics
Nearly 6,800 athletes came to the Los Angeles Olympics the summer of 1984.
HS: The Russians boycotted Los Angeles.
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Perestroika and Glasnost
Perestroika and Glasnost were Gorbachev's policies of opernness
HS: The Soviets were planning to part the Iron Curtain using these policies.
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Chernobyl
Chernobyl was a nuclear-power accident in Ukraine.
HS: Chernobyl was the worst nuclear-power accident and was 100 times more powrful than the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and the Nagasaki.
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Tiananmen Square
Tianamen was a huge public plaza at the center of China's capital, Beijing.
HS: It was the first time the people the people of China stood up to the Chinese army under Mao Zedong.
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Berlin Wall is torn down
The East German Government made an announcement announcing that permanent locations can be down through all border checkpoints between East and West Germany. People chipped the wall with hammers and chisels.
HS: After the Berlin Wall was torn down Germany reunified to one again.
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Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev was the president of the Soviet Union.
HS: He created glasnost and perestroika.
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Yeltsin
Boris Yelstin was the president of Russia.
HS: He was the first president of Russia.
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End of the USSR
The Soviet Union split into 15 seperate countries. Gorbachev had resigned and Yelstin was the new president.
HS: The end of the USSR symbolized the end of the Cold War.
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Putin
Vladimir Putin is the president of Russia.
HS: Putin returned political and economic stability to Russia.
picture: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Vladimir_Putin_12015.jpg
