History

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a clash of ideas between Western and Communist nations that began after WWII and lasted until 1991

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cold war

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what country experienced an incredible recovery known as the economic miracle

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West Germany

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who rejected socailism and embraced the principles of the free market

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Adenauer

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Charles de Gualle become president of what country and established the Fifth Republicin 1958

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France

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McArthur gave what country a constitution and helped to establish a democratic government

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Japan

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what plan was to stabiliz and to distribute funds that enabled Europe to rapidly rebuild and retool for strong economic recovery

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Marshall Plan

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what country had a welfare system that the cost of these policies are high taxes and high unemployment

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France

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what country became one of those nations that struggled to establish a successful democracy, endured the civil war, and quickly joined the NATO

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Greece

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what league original intent was to protect its members nation from soviet aggression

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NATO

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on what island did Chiang establish the Republic of China

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Taiwan

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who was the first leader of China

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Mao Zedong

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communist China developed animosity toward who

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the Soviets

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Mao announced in 1958 that a new economic plan that was known as what

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Great Leap Forward

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what 2 things did Mao intend to double the production from that of the previous year

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steel and agricultural products

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Mao unleashed a political purge known as what in 1966

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Cultural Revolution

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Mao tryed to purge what kind of elements from China and this did not stop until his death in 1976

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anti-communist

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protestors filled what in the spring of 1989 in the Chinese capital

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Tiananmen Square in Beijing China

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during the Berlin Blockade, the Allies divided Germany into how many zones

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four

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during the Korean war the entry of one hundred thousand what kind if troops preserved North Korea from total defeat

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Chinese communist

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this infusion of troops surprised the UN troops and forced them back across the...

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38th parallel

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during the fall if 1962, the U.S. descovered soviets had placed missiles in what country

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Cuba

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what was the communist leader who resisted French efforts and declared Veitnam independent

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Ho Chi Minh

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Veitnamese communist French efforts to regain this colony at what battle

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Battle of Dien Bien Pho

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who became the first nation to harness the power of the atom

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the United States

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what was the first man-made satellite launched by the Soviets and gave what country a teporary advantage in the space race

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Sputnik;Russia

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what is the region that remained neutral and did not ally themselves with the free or the communist power

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third world

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who led a movement known as passive resistence to achieve Indian independence

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Mohandas Ganchi

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what was this African nation called that became the first nation to achieve independence

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Ghana

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what declaration issued by British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour, declared the British government favored the idea of the homeland for the Jewish people; it became the first official recognition by a world power the Jews needed a land to call their own

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The Balfour Declaration

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who had governed what country as a mandate following WWI

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British;Palestine

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what 2 nations recongnized the nation of Isreal

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United States and the Soviet Union

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what war did Isreal smash the imminent Arab threat

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Six-Day War

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in 1979 what country force invaded Afghanistan

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Russian

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who was the first lady to lead the Conservative Party in Great Britian to victory

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Margaret Thatcher

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he became the fortieth president of the United States in 1980

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Ronald Reagan

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he was a Polish electrical technician, led the Polish workers to form an anti-Communist movement that comdined labor, the Roman Catholic Church, and Polish nationalism to oppose Soviet domination

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Lech Walesa

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following Stalin's death,who ruled the Soviet Union until 1964 and was voted out of his office while he was on vacation

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Nikita Krushchev

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who emerged as the leader of the Soviet Union and the people elected him as president of the Soviet Union

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Mikail Gorbachev

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he allowed what kind of ownership and released thousands of political prisoners

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private

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what 5 countries broke away thier Soviet Union masters and declared their independence

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Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, and Poland