History 2

Has the right to keep the satellites from Communists

Brezhnev Doctirine

the capital of Hungary in November

Budapest

where the communist government was set up

Cambodia

Purging the country of Stalin;s memory

Destaliniazation

A policy of lessening Cold War tensions

Detente

The threat terms, described by President Eisenhower

Domino Effect

Increase, its involvement

Escalate

A young Lawyer, led the revolution

Fidel Castro

US soldiers were fighting a guerilla war in unfamiliar jungle terrain

First Major Problems

the industrialized capitalist, including the US and its allies

First World

unpopular dictator, ruled Cuba

Fulgencio

Where the destroyers were attacked

Gulf Of Tonkin

the capital of the North

Hanoi

Told Congress that N. Vietnamese patrol boats had attacked two US Destoroyers

Lyndon B. Johnson

Prime Minister, forced the Shah to flee

Muhammad Mossadeq

The leader of US and France anti-communist government

NGO Dinh Diem

Soviet Leader

Nikita Khrushchev

to be independent

Nonaligned Nations

a German word meaning Realistik politic

Realpolitik

began with drawing troops from Vietnam in 1969

Richard Nixon

He moved away from detente, increased defense spending and put both economic military pressure on the Soviets

Ronald Reagan

The S. Vietnamese government was becoming more and more unpopular

Second Major Problems

was the communist nations lead by the Soviet Union

Second World

Iran's leader, embraced Western gorvernments and wealthy western Oil Companies

Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

the capital of Tehran

Tehran

The leader of the opposition, had been living in exile

Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini

Muslim leaders opposed western influences

Ayatollahs

Czech Communist leader, loosened controls on Censorship, became known as Prague Spring

Alexander Dubcek

Young Vietnamese Nationalist

Ho Chi Mich

capital of Saigon

Ho Chi Minh City

A popular and liberal Communist leader formed a new government

Imre Nagy

under the leadership of Pol Pot

Kampuchea

Communist rebal, set up a brutal Communist Goverment

Khmer Rouge

Founded by Ho and others

League Vietminh

who quickly adopted repressive domestic policies

Leonid Brezhnev

consisted of developing nations, often newly independent who were not aligned with either superpower

Third World

Began to gain strength in the South and gradually won control of large areas of the countryside

Vietcong

called for US troops to gradually pull out

Vietnamization