Early Cold War Vocab (Korean and Vietnam War)

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  1. 2. a U.S. foreign policy adopted by President Harry Truman in the late 1940s, in which the United States tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping weak countries to resist Soviet advances.
  2. 6. in Communist China, a collective farm on which a great number of people work and live together.
  3. 10. 1966 - 1976 uprising in China led by the Red Guards with the goal of establishing a society of peasants and workers in which all were equal.
  4. 15. a defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European nations, the United States, and Canada.
  5. 16. Commanded 15 nations, including the United States and Britain in Korea.
  6. 18. The leader of Communist China. Northern China.
  7. 19. militia units formed by young Chinese people in 1966 in response to Mao Zedong’s call for social and cultural revolution.
  8. 21. a U.S. program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after World War II.
  9. 22. an international peacekeeping organization founded in 1945 to provide security to the nations of the world.
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  1. 1. Leader of the Chinese Nationalist forces. Dominated Southern China
  2. 3. Was the leader in South Vietnam set up by the United States and France.
  3. 4. during the Cold War, the boundary separating the Communist nations of Eastern Europe from the mostly democratic nations of Western Europe.
  4. 5. a group of Communist guerrillas who, with the help of North Vietnam, fought against the South Vietnamese government in the Vietnam War.
  5. 7. A Vietnamese nationalist who turned to Communism for help in his struggle for independence.
  6. 8. a military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and seven Eastern European countries.
  7. 9. announced by President Harry Truman in 1947, a U.S. policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents.
  8. 11. President Richard Nixon’s strategy for ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, involving a gradual withdrawal of American troops and replacement of them with South Vietnamese forces.
  9. 12. Korea became a divided nation. A line of latitude that crosses the Korean peninsula.
  10. 13. the state of diplomatic hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union in the decades following World War II.
  11. 14. a policy of threatening to go to war in response to an enemy aggression.
  12. 17. a group of Communist rebels who seized power in Cambodia in 1975.
  13. 20. An idea that if a nation falls under Communist control, nearby nations will also fall under Communist control.
  14. 23. the first successful artificial space satellite, launched by the Soviets October 4, 1957.