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  1. 1. pact- A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe.
  2. 7. doctrine- The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War.
  3. 8. somoza- Anastasio "Tachito" Somoza DeBayle was a Nicaraguan dictator and officially the President of Nicaragua from 1 May 1967 to 1 May 1972 and from 1 December 1974 to 17 July 1979
  4. 9. war- a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare.
  5. 10. parallel- The 38th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 38 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane.
  6. 11. ortega- osé Daniel Ortega Saavedra is a Nicaraguan politician serving as President of Nicaragua since 2007; previously he was leader of Nicaragua from 1979 to 1990, first as Coordinator of the Junta of National Reconstruction and then as President
  7. 12. nixon-Richard Milhous Nixon was an American politician who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 until 1974.
  8. 16. the art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, especially in politics.
  9. 17. F. Kennedy-John Fitzgerald Kennedy, often referred to by the initials JFK and Jack, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.
  10. 18. Jjeshi- Chiang Kai-shek, also known as Chiang Chung-cheng and romanized via Mandarin as Chiang Chieh-shih
  11. 21. khrushchev- Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was a Soviet statesman who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964
  12. 23. a member of the communist guerrilla movement in Vietnam that fought the South Vietnamese government forces 1954–75 with the support of the North Vietnamese army and opposed the South Vietnamese and US forces in the Vietnam War.
  13. 26. Johnson- Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to by the initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969.
  14. 27. world- the developing countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America
  15. 28. Zedong- Mao Zedong, also known as Chairman Mao and Mao Runzhi, was a Chinese communist revolutionaChiang
  16. 30. guards- Red Guards were a mass student-led paramilitary social movement mobilized and guided by Chairman Mao Zedong in 1966 and 1967
  17. 31. curtains- a notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989.
  18. 32. easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries.
  19. 33. Dinh Diem- Vietnamese political leader who served as president, with dictatorial powers, of what was then South Vietnam, from 1955 until his assassination.
  20. 34. theory- the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall
  21. 35. Brezhnev-Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev was a Soviet politician.
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  1. 2. ruholla khomenili- Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini, also known in the Western world as Ayatollah Khomeini, was an Iranian revolutionary, politician, and cleric
  2. 3. the US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam.
  3. 4. plan- The Marshall Plan was an American initiative passed in 1948 to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion in economic
  4. 5. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries.
  5. 6. nations- The United Nations (UN) is an international organization formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among its member countries.
  6. 13. the action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits.
  7. 14. Salt is a mineral consisting primarily of sodium chloride, a chemical compound belonging to the larger class of salts
  8. 15. Reagan-Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and became the highly influential voice of modern conservatism.
  9. 19. nations- not aligned with something else
  10. 20. chi minh- A Vietnamese revolutionary leader of the twentieth century.
  11. 22. Rouge- The Khmer Rouge was the name popularly given to the followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea and by extension to the regime through which the CPK ruled in Cambodia between 1975 and 1979.
  12. 24. a group of people living together and sharing possessions and responsibilities.
  13. 25. castro- Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008.
  14. 29. revolution- The Cultural Revolution, formally the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China from 1966 until 1976.
  15. 32. macarthur- Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) was an American general who commanded the Southwest Pacific in World War II (1939-1945), oversaw the successful Allied occupation of postwar Japan and led United Nations forces in the Korean War