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| 175448306 | Joseph Stalin | Brutal leader of Russia who took control when Lenin died. He renamed the country The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and arrested or killed millions of citizens who disagreed with him. | |
| 175448307 | Vladimir Lenin | Put Karl Marx's idea of communism into action. Told people that communism would make their lives better and more equal. Peasants were rebelling against monarchy. | |
| 175448308 | Monarchy | Supreme power or sovereignty held by a single person. | |
| 175448309 | Harry S. Truman | US president who was 33rd pres. after FDR and ruled during era of atomic bomb (manhattan project), his doctrine agreed that US would come to the aid of any country endangered by communism. Was part of the Cold War and WW2 | |
| 175448310 | Karl Marx | The founder of modern communism. | |
| 175448311 | George Marshall | Secretary of State under Truman, came up with a plan that gave $ to countries devastated by war. | |
| 175448312 | Nikita Khrushchev | Successor of Stalin. Defended Soviet's views of freedoms of people in Europe behind the "Iron Curtain." Decided to put nuclear missiles in Cuba Aimed at USA's biggest cities. Eventually took them out of Cuba. | |
| 175448313 | John F. Kennedy | President of the US during the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Both during Cold War, were both failures. | |
| 175448314 | Richard Nixon | Ended the draft and stopped US participation in Vietnam; during his term Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon; resigned as a result of the Watergate scandal | |
| 175448315 | Joseph McCarthy | US senator; claimed that their were Soviet spies and Communists within the government but had no evidence; discredited by the US senate | |
| 175448316 | Bay of Pigs | FAILURE. The CIA trained the Cuban refuges and gave them weapons to invade Cuba. US thought people would rise up against Castro. It didn't work and President Kennedy looked foolish. He took responsibility. | |
| 175448317 | Cuban Missile Crisis | Mutual Assured Destruction(MAD). Khrushchev put nuclear missiles in Cuba aimed at USA's biggest cities, and US put missiles in Turkey aimed at Cuba. | |
| 175448318 | Fidel Castro | Communist who took power over Cuba who was friends with Khrushchev. Told him to launch missiles at US in Cuban Missile Crisis. | |
| 175448319 | Ronald Reagan | Came into office calling Russia and "evil empire". At the end of the Cold War he spent tons of money on weapons trying to destroy Russia and to defend the US from their communist nuclear weapons. This was called the arms race because they were competing for who had the most powerful weapons. (same time period of "space race") eventually this US president and Russian president Mikhail Grobachev signed the arms control agreement which stopped the fighting between them. | |
| 175448320 | Mikhail Grobachev | Communist Russian president who signed the arms control agreement with US president Ronald Reagan. It stopped the fighting between them. | |
| 175448321 | Vietnam | the place where there was a war between-Communist North: who were supported by the Chinese: leader Ho Chi Minh and Non-communist South: who were supported by the United States: leader US President Eisenhower. US got involved b/c of Truman Doctrine. US FAILED because we had NO REASON TO FIGHT!!!! | |
| 175448322 | Guerilla Warfare | The fighting technique when small groups attack suddenly and by surprise endlessly | |
| 175448323 | USSR | Communism-Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill (IRON CURTAIN). Berlin split East to West-EAST: US and Great Britain-Capitalism. WEST: This term-Communism. Put up 1961, torn down 1989. Berlin airlift (US and Great Britain) sent food/goods to West being deprived of food/freedom | |
| 175448324 | Korea | N: communist. Leader is Kim iL Sung (education in Russia), S: not communist. Leader is Syngman Rhee (education in US, US supporting him). Split at 38th parallel N invaded S. General Douglas MacArthur invaded N when president Eisenhower told him only to push them back to the 38th parallel. MISTAKE!!! China is communist friend to N and helped them in fighting. President Eisenhower called cease fire (stop in fighting) | |
| 175448325 | Berlin Wall | Berlin split East to West: EAST: US, Great Britan, Capitalism. WEST: USSR, communism - put up 1961, torn down 1989. | |
| 175448326 | Berlin airlift | US sent food and goods to West being deprived of food/freedom | |
| 175458332 | General Douglas MacArthur | Invaded N. Korea when president Eisenhower told him only to push them back to the 39th parallel. MISTAKE!!! China is communist friend to N. Korea and helped them in fighting. | |
| 175458333 | 38th parallel | N. Korea and S. Korea are split here. | |
| 175458334 | cease fire | a stop in fighting | |
| 175458335 | Ho Chi Minh | Communist North Vietnam's leader who was supported by the communist China | |
| 175458336 | Iron Curtain | Winston Churchill's term for the "political barrier" that is the Soviet power zone | |
| 175458337 | East/West Germany | location of Berlin wall: East was controlled by the communist Soviet Union. West was a democracy supported by the U.S. The city of Berlin, although it was entirely within East borders, was also partitioned in two. No freedom/ communication from either side | |
| 175458338 | Communism | All people work for government, they give all their products to the government, the government re-distributes goods/food fairly | |
| 180269713 | Cuba | ___ missile crisis: Mutual Assured Destruction(MAD). Khrushchev put nuclear missiles here aimed at USA's biggest cities, and US put missiles in Turkey aimed at here. |
