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18 Cards in this Set
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Ronald Reagan |
U.S. pres. 1980s, built up military, reduced other govt. spending |
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Gorbachev |
last communist russian leader, tried to fix probs, didnt work |
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Mao Zedong |
Led the Long March, won the chinese civil war |
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Korean War |
1950s, U.S. won, U.S. pushed communist N. Korea out of S. Korea |
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Vietnam War |
U.S. lost, 60s & 70s, communist in N., U.S. tried to push them out of Vietnam but failed |
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Berlin |
Berlin Airlift- 40s U.S. bringing supplies to free area of Berlin Berlin wall- built in 1960s |
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Tienanmen Square |
china protesters killed by communist govt |
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NATO |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, defensive military alliance between America and W. European countries |
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Iron Curtain |
Churchills speech, separation between free vs. communist |
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Cuba |
1960s Castro took over, became communist, U.S. tried to push them out but failed, Bay of Pigs Missile Crisis- russian threaten U.S. w/ nuclear bomb, we threatened back |
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Warsaw Pact |
communist version of NATO, Russian & E. European Nations |
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1949 |
Russia got nuclear bomb, Chinese civil war, creation of NATO |
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Truman Doctrine |
U.S. contained communism where it was |
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Marshall plan |
rebuilding europe, U.S. helping out europe so they dont become communist |
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Great Leap Foward |
failed industrial rev. of China |
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Cultural Revolution |
disastrous attempt to purify Chinese communism |
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Pope John Paul II |
outspoken anti communist |
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Lech Walesa |
Polish labor leader, anti communist |