346082248 | Manhattan Project | The development of an atomic bomb. | 0 | |
346082249 | President Truman | Of the United states ordered the dropping of an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima on August 6,1945. | 1 | |
346082250 | Nagasaki | A second bomb was drop on August 9. | 2 | |
346082251 | United Nations | Established in 1945 to replace the failed League of Nations. | 3 | |
346082252 | Truman Doctrine | Of 1947 the United States explicitly stated that it would aid countries threatened by communist takeovers. | 4 | |
346082253 | Federal | State with three branches, checks and balances and an independent court. | 5 | |
346082254 | Hugo Chavez | A third term as the country has nationalized a number of industries including telephone and steel. | 6 | |
346082255 | The Cuban Revolution | Was hailed as a great success against a dictator. | 7 | |
346082256 | Platt Amendment | Which also provided for the presence of U.S. military bases. | 8 | |
346082257 | Ngo Dihn Diem | Became the president of the democratic south. | 9 | |
346082258 | Ho Chi Minh | Gained control of the land north of the 17th parallel. | 10 | |
346082259 | Vietminh | Fought them back. | 11 | |
346082260 | General MacArthur | Nearly reaching the Chinese border, but when it looked as if the North Koreans would be defeated, China entered the war of behalf of the communist North. | 12 | |
346082261 | Tienanmen Square Massacre | The government sent troops and opened fire. | 13 | |
346082262 | Great Leap Forward | In which huge communes were created as a way of catapulting the revolution toward its goal of a true Marxist state. | 14 | |
346082263 | Mao Zedong | Had rallied millions of peasants in northern China and swept southward toward the Kuomindang strongholds, driving the Kuomindang farther and farther south until they finally fled to the island of Taiwan, where they established the Republic of China. | 15 | |
346082264 | Chiang Kai-Shek | Established the KMT as the ruling party of China, but only for a while. | 16 | |
346082265 | Three Principles of the People | Nationalism,socialism, and democracy. | 17 | |
346082266 | Chinese Revolution of 1911 | China became more Westernized in an effort to gain power and boot out the Europeans and Japanese, who had established spheres of influence in the country. | 18 | |
346082267 | Iron Curtain | Western influence couldn't penetrate it and Easterners were rarely allowed to go to the Western bloc. | 19 |
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