Chapter 17

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  1. 4. was a Chinese nationalist politician, revolutionary and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China between 1928 and 1975.
  2. 7. A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. Organized in 1955 in answer to NATO, the Warsaw Pact included Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union.
  3. 8. the developing countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
  4. 13. The United Nations (UN) is an international organization formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among its member countries.
  5. 18. the architect of the Iranian Revolution and the first leader rahbar of the Islamic republic established in 1979. He articulated the concept of guardianship of the jurist using a historical basis, which underlay Iran's Islamic republic.
  6. 20. Mineral
  7. 22. Soviet statesman who became president of the Soviet Union 1906-1982 Synonyms: Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev Example of: national leader, solon, statesman. a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs.
  8. 23. 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.
  9. 24. officially the 21st President of Nicaragua from 1 January 1937 to 1 May 1947 and from 21 May 1950 to 29 September 1956, but ruled effectively as dictator from 1936 until his assassination.
  10. 26. May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963, 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.
  11. 27. NATO is an alliance of 28 countries bordering the North Atlantic Ocean. It includes the United States, most European Union members, Canada, and Turkey. NATO is an acronym for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
  12. 29. A Vietnamese revolutionary leader of the twentieth century. Ho Chi Minh led the communists of Vietnam in their efforts to drive out the forces of Japan in the 1940s, France in the 1950, and the United States in the 1960’s.
  13. 32. A Cambodian Communist movement that was active as a guerrilla force from 1970 to the late 1990s and held power under the leadership of Pol Pot from 1975 to 1979.
  14. 34. born January 3, 1901, Quang Binh province, northern Vietnam died November 2, 1963, Cho Lon, South Vietnam now in Vietnam, Vietnamese political leader who served as president, with dictatorial powers, of what was then South Vietnam, from 1955 until his assassination.
  15. 36. the state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990.
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  1. 1. a circle of latitude that is 38 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. It crosses Europe, the Mediterranean Sea, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America, and the Atlantic Ocean. The 38th parallel north formed the border between North and South Korea prior to the Korean War.
  2. 2. 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 assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II.
  3. 3. the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or Communist insurrection. First expressed in 1947 by US President Truman in a speech to Congress seeking aid for Greece and Turkey, the doctrine was seen by the Communists as an open declaration of the Cold War.
  4. 5. born November 11, 1945 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 1979–1985 and then as President.
  5. 6. an American general best known for his command of Allied forces in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
  6. 9. formally the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China from 1966 until 1976
  7. 10. the art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, especially in politics.
  8. 11. Was the 37th president of the United States
  9. 12. a Soviet statesman who became president of the Soviet Union 1906-1982 Synonyms: Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev Example of: national leader, solon, statesman. a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs.
  10. 14. The 40th president of the United States
  11. 15. Nations of the Third World that as a group rejected alliance with either the United States or the former Soviet Union.
  12. 16. a national 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.
  13. 17. 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. Formerly the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963, he assumed the presidency following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
  14. 19. the US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam.
  15. 21. 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.
  16. 25. was a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. A component of the Cold War, this policy was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge its communist sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, and Vietnam.
  17. 28. a group of people living together and sharing possessions and responsibilities.
  18. 30. 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, which he ruled as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.
  19. 31. 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.
  20. 33. any of various radical or socialist groups, in particular a militant youth movement in China (1966–76) that carried out attacks on intellectuals and other disfavored groups as part of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution
  21. 35. the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries.