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Cold War

American Pageant Terms 4

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Counterculture of the 1960s
Soviet Union–United States relations
Community organizing
De-Stalinization
Post–Civil Rights Era African-American history
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Dwight D. Eisenhower
African-American Civil Rights Movement
Nikita Khrushchev
Brinkmanship
Cold War
Suez Crisis

Quiz Guide #19 Cuban Revolution: A political revolution that removed the United States supported Fugencio Batista from power. The revolution was led by Fidel Castro who became the new leader of Cuba as a communist dictator. Brinkmanship: the act of pushing a situation to the verge of war in order to threaten and encourage one's opponent to back down. Domino Theory: the political theory that if one nation comes under Communist control then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control

American Pageant Terms 3

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Soviet Union–United States relations
Presidency of Harry S. Truman
Vice Presidents of the United States
Aftermath of World War II
Political parties in the United States
Harry S. Truman
Cold War
Truman Doctrine
Containment
Korean War
Progressive Party
Thomas E. Dewey

Quiz Guide#18 Alger Hiss: a prominent ex-New Dealer and a distinguished member of the "eastern establishment." accused of being a communist agent in the 1930s. He dramatically met his chief accuser before the Un-American Activities Committee in august but was convicted of perjury. Communist China: The turning point of the Cold War was when China turned "red" because it was the most populous country. Mao Zedong led communist revolution and he won against Jiang (Nationalist with no support). It changes the US policies; making presidents after Truman to vow not to lose any other country to communism.

Chapter 38 American Pageant

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vietnam war
Richard Nixon
Cold War
Nixon Doctrine
Vietnam
Lyndon B. Johnson
My Lai Massacre
Credibility gap
Tet Offensive
Joint warfare in South Vietnam, 1963–69
Role of the United States in the Vietnam War

Chapter 38 The presidency of Lyndon Johnson was successful because despite the dealings with Vietnam, he was able to get legislation passed, like voting rights, civil rights, and ultimately his Great Society plans. He was able to enormously improve the country with many domestic improvements, like Medicare for the poor, elderly, and women.

Red Flags and Velvet Revolutions: The End of the Cold War, 1960–1990

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Perestroika
Mikhail Gorbachev
Communist states
Eastern Bloc
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
soviet union
Boris Yeltsin
Cold War
revolutions
Glasnost
Russia
USSR

Kinberg, Nicholas Michael Chakmakian AP European History 7 June 2015 Chapter 18 Outline Red Flags/Velvet Revolutions: End of Cold War, 1960 ? 1990 TV, radio, film promoted Americanmiddle-class life 60s, econ. Boom ended, movements of social protest, especially among youth, shattered consensus; environmentalists/feminists criticized assumptions of older generation Problems were compounded in 1975 by econ. Crisis Econ. Decay with stagnation produced revolt;1989, commie rule collapsed in East Euro Migrants weren?t celebrated; became targets of suspicion/violence Reunification of Germany in 1991, attacks against migrants in East Germany by right-wing extremists killed 17 foreigners

The Cold War World: Global Politics, Economic Recovery, and Cultural Change

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Soviet Union–United States relations
Aftermath of World War II
Cold War
Nuclear warfare
Nikita Khrushchev
Allies of World War II
soviet union
euro

87Kinberg, Nicholas Michael Chakmakian AP European History 4 June 2015 Chapter 17 Outline Cold War: Global Politics, Econ. Recovery, Cultural Change 1m?s of Euro refugees trekked100s/1k?s of mi. on foot to return to homes Housing was nonexistent; 1946, 100m Euros lived on <1.5k cal/day Fam?s. scraped vegetables from gardens/traded smuggled goods on black market Gov?t?s rationed food; winter 1946, had no fuel Coal, prewar supply, couldn?t be transported to needy areas 2 powers emerged, US/USSR, dev. Of ?Cold War? Cold War divided Euro, East occupied by USSR, West by US Led to political/econ. Integration, resulting in Euro Common Market in West/socialist bloc dominated by USSR inEast Collapse of empires/creation of nations raised stakes of Cold War

Notes

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Soviet Union–United States relations
Cold War
Détente
Conservatism in the United States
Ronald Reagan

Unit 9 notes Detente & Peace Through Strength Cracking the AP(2015 Edition) :(Required) Detente pg(s) 247-250 Peace Through Strength pg(s) 251-254 Out of Many Textbook: (Recommended) Detente pg(s): 1079-1082, 1083-1084 Peace Through Strength pg(s): 1107-1111, 1121-1128 US 1980 Olympic Ban Camp David Accords Iran Hostage Rescue Cold War Nixon Detente policy Reagan?s SDI programme War Powers Act 1985 State of the Union Address
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The End of Empire

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Two-state solution
Israel, Palestine, and the United Nations
Southern Levant
Israeli society
Postcolonialism
Decolonization
Zionism
Arab–Israeli conflict
Black people
Cold War
United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine

Kinberg, Nicholas Michael Chakmakian AP World History 27 August 2015 Chapter 39 Outline End of Empire Mohandas K. Gandhi, ?Bapuji,? as he was called 1/30/1948, after India gained indep. From Brit, awakened at Birla House in Delhi at 3 AM to work on solutions to problems in India Worked on draft of constitution for Indian Nat'l Congress, stressing villages being empowered, discrimination based on caste system being abolished, religious intolerance between Hindus/Muslims cease Distraught over partitioning of his land to Hindu India/Muslim Pakistan, weakened himself after indep. Thru fasts/hunger strikes staged as satyagraha, ?truth/firmness,? protests against murders of Hindus/Muslims/mistreatment of Pakistan Weighed 107 lbs.

The Bipolar World

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Soviet Union–United States relations
Cuba–United States relations
Communist states
Nikita Khrushchev
Fidel Castro
Cold War
soviet union
Leonid Brezhnev
Cuban Missile Crisis

Kinberg, Nicholas Michael Chakmakian AP World History 26 August 2015 Chapter 38 Outline Bipolar World 7/1959, vice pres. Of US Richard M. Nixon arrived in Moscow to open American Nat?l Exhibition, display of US goods in Russia Host Soviet premier Nikita S. Khrushchev, didn?t embrace it US Congress passed ?captive nations? resolution, criticized USSR for mistreatment of satellite nations, Khrushchev was convinced Nixon?s visit was humiliation Before visiting exhibition, Khrushchev/Nixon debated about captive nations Took place in US model house built for exhibit Khrushchev mocked appliances in kitchen, including lemon juicer/dishwasher Epitomized ?capitalist attitude toward women? Argued working class couldn?t afford them

AP EURO NOTES

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Politics
Military history by country
Military
Joseph Stalin
Foreign relations of the Soviet Union
Poland–United Kingdom relations
Heads of government of the Soviet Union
Winston Churchill
Cold War
Yalta Conference
Harry S. Truman
Potsdam Conference
War

AP Euro Notes Sec 27-2 pp.868-872 AND 876- 888 Nalani Story THE AFTERMATH OF THE WAR: EMERGENCE OF THE COLD WAR Tehran Conference (1943) Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill, the leaders of the Big Three of the Grand Alliance, met at Tehran, Iran in November of 1943 primary purpose was to determine the way the final assault on Germany would be conducted Roosevelt and Stalin overruled Churchill and decided that the British and Americans would invade the continent through France in the Spring of 1944 not through the Balkans as Churchill wanted decision meant that Eastern Europe would be liberated by the Russians agreed to link up with the Soviets in Germany and partition Germany upon its defeat Yalta Conference (1945)

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