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- 2. a group of Communist guerrillas who, with the help of North Vietnam, fought against the South Vietnam government in the Vietnam War
- 4. president after kennedy died
- 6. President Nixon's strategy for ending US involvement in the Vietnam War, involving a gradual withdrawal of American troops and replacement of them with South Vietnamese forces
- 7. also known as Chairman Mao and Mao Runzhi, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who became the founding father of the People's Republic of China
- 10. adopted repressive domestic policies
- 13. a group of communist rebels who seized power in Cambodia in 1975
- 14. the dictator of Nicaragua and a US ally. His government was overthrown by leftist revolutionaries (Sandinistas) in 1979.
- 16. formally the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China from 1966 until 1976.
- 19. Was the leader of the Sandinista rebels who wanted Nicaragua to become communist. Initially better than dictator; US actually supports Ortega over Somoza.
- 20. presidentwho used detente
- 23. the art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, especially in politics.
- 25. Iranian religious leader of the Shiites; when Shah Pahlavi's regime fell Khomeini established a new constitution giving himself supreme powers (1900-1989)
- 26. is an alliance of 28 countries bordering the North Atlantic Ocean.
- 27. policy of lessoning cold war tensions
- 28. is an intergovernmental organization responsible for maintaining international peace and security
- 30. took office in 1981
- 31. known as the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, commonly known as the Warsaw Pact or DDSV was a collective defense treaty signed in
- 32. Line that divided Korea - Soviet Union occupied the north and United States occupied the south, during the Cold War.
- 33. president during missal crisis
- 35. led the revolution of Cuba and took control of Cuba in 1959; resented past dictators; made Cuba communist
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- 1. communist leader of North Vietnam; used guerrilla warfare to fight anti-Communist, American-funded attacks under the Truman Doctrine; brilliant strategy drew out war and made winning unattainable
- 3. the independent countries that remained neutral in the Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union
- 5. was the supreme allied commander during the Cold War in 1945. After World War II, MacArthur was put in charge of putting Japan back together. In the Korean War, he commanded the United Nations troops.
- 8. was an American initiative passed in 1948 to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II.
- 9. poor countries, under developed, largely rural,high level of poverty. (autocratic dictatorships) one person with the power
- 11. a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare.
- 12. a group of people living together and sharing possessions and responsibilities.
- 15. 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.
- 17. was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War.
- 18. stratigic arms limitation
- 19. the idea that if a nation falls under Communist control, nearby nations will also fall under Communist control
- 21. soviet leader after Stalin died
- 22. was a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad.
- 24. were a mass student-led paramilitary social movement mobilized and guided by Chairman Mao Zedong in 1966 and 1967, during the first phase of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, which he had instituted.
- 29. was a Chinese nationalist politician, revolutionary and military leader who served
- 34. American ally in South Vietnam from 1954 to 1963; his repressive regime caused the Communist Viet Cong to thrive in the South and required increasing American military aid to stop a Communist takeover. he was killed in a coup in 1963.