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  1. 2. was the architect of the Iranian Revolution and the first leader (rahbar) of the Islamic republic established in 1979. He articulated the concept of velāyat-e faqīh (“guardianship of the jurist”) using a historical basis, which underlay Iran's Islamic republic.
  2. 6. was a Cold War policy that suggested a communist government in one nation would quickly lead to communist takeovers in neighboring states, each falling like a perfectly aligned row of dominos. With the exception of Laos and Cambodia, communism failed to spread throughout Southeast Asia.
  3. 7. After Batista's overthrow in 1959, Castro assumed military and political power as Cuba's Prime Minister. Countering these threats, Castro aligned with the Soviet Union and allowed the Soviets to place nuclear weapons in Cuba, resulting in the Cuban Missile Crisis a defining incident of the Cold War in 1962.
  4. 11. also known as the European Recovery Program, was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. ... In addition to economic redevelopment, one of the stated goals was to halt the spread of communism on the European continent.
  5. 12. led communist forces in China through a long revolution beginning in 1927 and ruled the nation’s communist government from its establishment in 1949. Along with Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, Mao is considered one of the most significant communist figures of the Cold War.
  6. 15. troops were more commonly used for maintaining communist rule within the Eastern Bloc itself. When Hungary tried to withdraw from the Pact in 1956, Soviet troops entered the country and removed the Hungarian People's Republic government.
  7. 16. was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops".
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  1. 1. The Brezhnev Doctrine was a Soviet foreign policy that proclaimed any threat to socialist rule in any state of the Soviet bloc in Central and Eastern Europe was a threat to them all, and therefore justified the intervention of fellow socialist states.
  2. 3. He focused on détente with the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union, easing Cold War tensions with both countries. As part of this policy, Nixon signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and SALT I, two landmark arms control treaties with the Soviet Union.
  3. 4. was Commander-in-Chief of the United Nations Army. The UN soldiers had a difficult battle in North Korea because North Korean planes flew in from China to attack them.
  4. 5. responded by placing a naval blockade, which he referred to as a "quarantine," around Cuba. He also demanded the removal of the missiles and the destruction of the sites. ... But the end of Cuban Missile Crisis did little to ease the tensions of the Cold War.
  5. 8. also introduced the White Revolution, a series of economic, social and political reforms with the proclaimed intention of transforming Iran into a global power and modernizing the nation by nationalizing certain industries and granting women suffrage.
  6. 9. was the architect of the Iranian Revolution and the first leader (rahbar) of the Islamic republic established in 1979. He articulated the concept of velāyat-e faqīh (“guardianship of the jurist”) using a historical basis, which underlay Iran's Islamic republic.
  7. 10. established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. It asked Congress to support the Greek Government against the Communists.
  8. 13. led the Soviet Union as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and as chairman of the country's Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964.
  9. 14. is best known as a Cold War foreign policy of the United States and its allies to prevent the spread of communism after the end of World War II. It represented a middle-ground position between detente (relaxation of relations) and rollback (actively replacing a regime).