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Two Major Powers
The United States and the USSR -
Berlin
Democratic government -
Japan
US occupation - MacArthur
Democracy
dominant economy -
International Cooperative Organization
The United Nations
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The Warsaw Pact -
Beginning of the Cold War
Yalta Conference and the Soviet control of Eastern Europe -
Cold War
Democracy and the free enterprise vs dictatorship and communism -
Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill -
Containment
President Truman and the policy of Containment (preventing the expanding of communism -
Marshall Plan
European Recovery Program - helped Europe rebuild after WWII -
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
code of conduct for the treatment -
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (military alliance) -
Chinese Civil War
China was divided into 2 nations -
Chiang Kai-shek (or Jiang Jieshi)
Became the leader of the Nationalist China (island of Taiwan) -
Mao Tse-tung (or Mao Zedong-and sometimes called Chairman Mao)
Became the leader of Communist China (mainland China) -
Korea
38th parallel after WWII, North Korean troops invaded South Korea, policy of containment, war ended in armistice -
Battle at Dien Bien Phu
The Vietnamese defeated the French and pushed them out of Vietnam -
Ho Chi Minh
Became the leader of Communist North Vietnam -
Warsaw Pact
military alliance by the Soviet Union -
Vietnam
domino theory -
The United States
Applied the containment theory to ending communism in Vietnam by sending troops in to fight -
Deterrence
Deterrence is the belief that having large amounts of nuclear weapons by both superpowers would prevent nuclear attack because both sides could strike back with devastating power -
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall became a powerful symbol of the division between east and west during the Cold War. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
brink of nuclear war, John F. Kennedy imposed naval blockade of Cuba -
Indira Gandhi (India President)
Developed a closer relationship with the Soviet Union and developed a nuclear program -
The Paris Peace Accords
Ended the fighting in Vietnam by the United States -
North Vietnam defeated South Vietnam
Vietnam was reunited as a communist country -
Deng Xiaoping (Chinese Leader)
Reformed Communist China's economy to a market economy leading to a rapid economic growth, but kept communist control of the government -
Margret Thatcher (British Prime Minister)
Close relationship with United States -
Mikhail Gorbachev (Soviet Leader)
Instituted policies of glasnost and perestroika which led to the fall of the Soviet Union -
Berlin Wall came down
East and West Germany re-unified -
Soviet Union
Economic collapse and break up