Whitney World Unit 9 Part A

Front 1

U.S. foreign policy adopted by President Truman in the late 1940's, in which the U.S. tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping the weak countries to resist Soviet advances

Back 1

Containment

Front 2

A military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and 7 Eastern European countries.

Back 2

Warsaw Pact

Front 3

A policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy aggression

Back 3

Brinkmanship

Front 4

Leader of the anti- Communist government in South Vietnam

Back 4

Ngo Dinh Diem

Front 5

President 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.

Back 5

Vietnamization

Front 6

A group of Communist guerrillas who, with the help of North Vietnam, fought against the South Vietnamese government in the Vietnam War.

Back 6

Vietcong

Front 7

During the Cold War, the boundary separating the Communist nations of a Eastern Europe from the mostly democratic nations of Western Europe.

Back 7

"Iron Curtain"

Front 8

A 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

Back 8

Cultural Revolution

Front 9

Announced by President Truman in 1947, a U.S. policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents.

Back 9

Truman Doctrine

Front 10

The state of diplomatic hostility between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the decades following World War 2.

Back 10

Cold War

Front 11

In Communist China, a collective farm on which a great number of people work and live together

Back 11

Commune

Front 12

A U.S. program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after World War 2.

Back 12

Marshall Plan

Front 13

The idea that if a nation falls under Communist control, nearby nations will also fall under Communist control.

Back 13

Domino Theory

Front 14

Communist leader of Northern China

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Mao Zedong

Front 15

Vietnamese nationalist whose Communist party led revolts and strikes against the French.

Back 15

Ho Chi Minh

Front 16

An international peacekeeping organization founded in 1945 to provide security to the nations of the world.

Back 16

United Nations

Front 17

A line that divided the nation of Korea at 38 degrees north latitude after World War 2.

Back 17

38th Parallel

Front 18

National leader of Southern China

Back 18

Jiang Jieshi

Front 19

Militia units formed by young Chinese people in 1966 in response to Mao Zedong's call for a social and cultural revolution.

Back 19

Red Guards

Front 20

A defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by 10 Western European nations, the U.S. and Canada.

Back 20

NATO