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Vietnam War

A prolonged war (1954-1975) between the communist armies of North Vietnam who were supported by the Chinese and the non-communist armies of South Vietnam who were supported by the United States.

Truman doctrine and Marshall Plan

Both were intended to help stop the spread of communism and achieve containment and they both gave aid to Turkey and Greece.

Which nation had the greatest influence on the recent histories of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Tibet

China

Berlin Airlift Cuban Missile crisis Nuclear arms race These events were part of an era known as the

Cold War

Korean War

Conflict that began with North Korea's invasion of South Korea and came to involve the United Nations (primarily the United States) allying with South Korea and the People's Republic of China allying with North Korea.

Which US foreign policy was used to maintain the independence of Greece and Turkey war after WW2

Containment

Fidel Castro

Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927)

One way in which Iran's Ayatollah(Muslims- Religious and shah meaning secular) Khomeini and Afghanistan's Taliban were similar is that they each

Established and Islamic state which is a religious state

One similarity between the Korean War and the Vietnam war is that both wars were

Fought as a result of differing political ideologies during the Cold War Political ideologies 1.Communism 2.Capitalism

One reason for the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 was to

Keep East Germans from fleeing to the Western sector of Berlin

Is NATO communist or capitalist

NATO is capitalist

Cambodia

Nixon widened the Vietnam War by moving troops into this country to try and remove enemy camps.

One reason the Chinese communist were able to gain control of China was primarily due to the support of

Peasants

George Marshall was honored because he had

Proposed economic aid from the US to rebuild the economies of European nations

Non-alignment

Resistance to side with one nation/force. Ex: India did not take a side during the Cold War.

What was Saigon renamed after the city fell?

Saigon was renamed Ho Chin Minh city after his death.

"Korea divided at the 38th parallel" "Hungarian Revolution Crushed" "Missed Sites Spotted in Cuba" The events in these headlines contributed to the

Tensions between the superpowers

NATO

The Berlin Blockade heightened Western Europes fears of Soviet aggression. As a result, in 1949, ten western European nations joined with the U.S.and Canada to form a defense military alliance. It was called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). An attack on any NATO member would be met with armed force by all member nations.

Warsaw Pact

The Soviet Union saw NATO as a threat and formed its own alliance. This included the Soviet Union, East Germany,Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania.

Berlin Blockade

The blockade was a Soviet attempt to starve out the allies in Berlin in order to gain supremacy. The blockade was a high point in the Cold War, and it led to the Berlin Airlift.

Creation of Warsaw pact and NATO Construction of the Berlin Wall Cuban missile crisis These events are most likely associated with

The cold war

Which factor most helped communist party forces gain control of China after WW2

The communist gained the support of Chinas peasants class

How as there strained relations between the Soviet Union and China after 1956.

The communist revolution was successful

Red guards

The youths who led Mao's Cultural Revolution. Wore red arm bands and carried his book. Terrorized Chinese citizens and determined who went to camps. During the Cultural Revolution. They also were students who went after and attacked teachers because they were educated.

Truman Doctrine

Truman's support for countries that rejected communism.

Ho Chi Minh

Turned to the communist for help in his struggle. During the 1930's, Ho's Indochinese Communist party led revolts and strikes against the French.

Marshall Plan

U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall proposed that the U.S. give aid to needy European countries. This assistance program would provide Machinery, and other materials to rebuild Western Europe.

Mao Zedong

Under this leader the communist had a stronghold in northwestern China. From there they mobilized peasants for guerrilla war against the Japanese in the northeast. Thanks to there efforts to promote literacy and improve food production, the communists won the peasants loyalty. By 1945, they controlled much of northern China.

Superpowers of the Cold War

United States and Soviet Union

One similarity between the reign of terror during the French Revolution and the Cultural Revolution in China was that both

Used violent methods to eliminate there opponents

Which communist nation is most closely associated with the leadership of Ho Chi Minh and the surrender of Saigon?

Vietnam

Is Warsaw communist or capitalist

Warsaw is communist

Domino Theory

With the defeat of the French, the US saw a rising threat to the rest of Asia. President Eisenhower described this threat as the Domino Theory. The southeast Asian nations were like a row of Dominos, he said. The fall of one to communism would lead to the fall of its Neighbors. This theory became a major Justification for US foreign policy during the Cold War.

Cold war

a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare, in particular.

Great Leap Forward

economic and social plan used in China from 1958 to 1961 which aimed to use China's vast population to rapidly transform the country from an agrarian economy into a modern industrial society. But it's failure caused millions of people to starve.

Which event illustrates the policy of containment?

naval blockade of Cuba (1962)