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Democracy and the free enterprise system vs. dictatorship and communism
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Two major powers: The united States and U.S.S.R
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West Berlin - Democratic government
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Japan- U.S occupation -Democracy -Dominant Economy
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International cooperative organizations - United Nations - Warsaw pact
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Cold War - The Yalta conference -Soviet Control of Eastern Europe
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Winston Churchill "iron curtain"
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President Truman and the Policy of Containment
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Declaration of Human Rights - code of conduct for the treatment of people
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Organization and the Warsaw pact -Military alliance( NATO)
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Chinese Civil War
China was divided into two nations -
Chiang Kai-Shek
Became the leader of nationalist China -
Mao-Tse tung
Became leader of Communist China -
Marshall Plan - The European Recovery Program - Europe Rebuilds
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Korean Conflict -38th parallel - policy of containment
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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 -
Vietnam War- Domino Theory
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The United States
Applied the containment theory to ending communism in Vietnam by sending troops to fight -
Deterrence
the belief of having many nuclear weapons -
Berlin Wall -division between east and west
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Cuban Missile - brought world to the brink of nuclear war in October
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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
Reformed Communist China's economy to a market economy leading rapid economic growth , but kept communist control of the government -
Margaret Thatcher
close relationship withe the united states -
Mikhail Gorbachev
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 -
Indira Ghandi
developed a closer relationship with the soviet union and developed a nuclear program
