history chapter 17 Flashcards

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Truman doctrine

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Announced by president Truman in 1947 a US policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents

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A US program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after WWII

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State of diplomatic hostility between US and Soviet Union in decades following WWII War of words between 2 superpowers

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North Atlantic treaty organization

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A military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and seven Eastern European countries

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A policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy aggression

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During Cold War, he developing nations not allied with either the US or SU

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The independent countries that remained neutral on the Cold War competition between the US and SU

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A harsh Cuban dictator who suspended elections, jailed or executed opponents, and tightly co trolling the press

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Dictator of Nicaragua in 1979 when the Sandinista rebels toppled his son. Both the US and SU initially gave aid to Sandinistas and their leader

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Leader of the Sandinistas who wa striven aid by the US and SU

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Leader of the religious opposition who lived in exile

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Became dominant soviet leader after Stalin died in 1953- started desalinization or purging the country of Stalins memory

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Khrushchev's replacement who quickly adopted repressive domestic policies. The party enforced laws to limit basic human rights such as freedom of speech and worship

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During his presidency in the early 60s the Cuban missile crisis made superpower of nuclear weapons a real possibility

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The Vice President of Kennedy who became president after Kennedy's assassination in 1963

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A policy of lessening Cold War tensions

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President Nixon replaced brinkmanship with detente out of a philosophy known as realpolitik- which comes from the German word meaning realistic politics

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Strategic arms limitation talks- a series of meetings in 70 s in which leaders of the US and SU agreed to limit their nations stock of nuclear weapons

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A fiercely anti communist president who took office in 1981 and continued to move away from detente

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The US had great weaponry while the Vietcong did not so they used hit and run and ambush tactics as well as use of the knowledge of the jungle terrain, to their advantage

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It was a jungle, very thick as in sometimes you cant see your hand if you stick it out in front of you. Easy to lay booby traps and worked for the advantage of the Vietcong

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Both sides used these but the vietcongs proved the most beneficial. For example a lady seeking soda in the market may wait until plenty US soldiers come near, then blow herself and the others up. He US would plant them in the terrain but be seen by Vietcong, disabled by them and reused on the Americans

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The US would be after the Vietcong and they would escape into a pond and not come out while the US were waiting. Instead they went through the tunnels and traveled backwards sopping wet and they would attack the US from behind

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.British prime minister, good friends with FDR, possibly the most powerful weapon the British had as they stood alone against hitler and Germany

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The name of the Vietnamese patriot was born with in 1890, we know him as Ho Chi Minh

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These practices were taking over the SU, china, Korea, Vietnam, etc. in which everyone is treated equally and given equally

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Group of 14 advisors selected by JFK from the national security council who discuss alternatives to the Cuban missile crisis

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The line separating north Vietnam from south Vietnam, similar to the 38 th parallel in Korea.

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At Yalta, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin made important decisions regarding the future progress of the war and the postwar world.

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Separates North Korea from china at northern part of Korea, Mao Zedong ordered many red guards and volunteers to set up there preventing an invasion

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Mobile army supply hospital whose purpose was to provide emergency medical care to American and un foot soldiers on the frontline of the war. "Meatball" surgical procedures

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The US and the SU were definitely the biggest superpowers at the time, both were very controlling and worked for their matter of justice

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From June 48 to may 49 allied planes took off and landed every three minutes in West Berlin

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planned to be the first manned mission of the Apollo manned lunar landing but ended in a fatal fire during a test and killed all crew members

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the first artificial Earth satellite put up by Russians

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Raul Castro became Cuba's leader when his elder brother, Fidel, died whose early defining political characteristic was nationalism.

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JFK finds out about the missiles by the CIA and he selects exComm

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SAC initiates a massive alert of its b52 nuclear bomber force, this is the first time in history all aircraft are armed with nuclear weapons

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JFK announces to America of the soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba are under our presence. 17 minutes long

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Two soviet ships, the Gagarin and the Komiles are within a few miles of the lien a soviet submarine has positioned itself between the ships

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an American lawyer, government official, author, and lecturer. He was involved in the establishment of the United Nations both as a U.S. State Department and U.N. official.

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Fallout shelters

history chapter 17 Flashcards

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