Chapter 17 Restructuring the Post War World

Question 1

Nixon's strategy-a gradual withdrawal of American troops & replacement w/ S. Vietnam troops

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Vietnamization

Question 2

A group of Communist gorillas fought against the South Vietnamese government in the Vietnam War

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Vietcong

Question 3

United States president who adopted the policy of detente.

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Richard Nixon

Question 4

If a nation falls under communist control, other nations will fall under communist control, too

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Domino Theory

Question 5

A group of Communist rebels under Pol Pot; in order to transform Cambodia to communism

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Khmer Rouge

Question 6

The developing nations not allied with either the United States or the Soviet Union.

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Third World

Question 7

U.S. policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threatened by communism

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Truman Doctrine

Question 8

The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks - U.S. & the Soviet Union agreed to limit nuclear weapons.

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SALT

Question 9

Dictator of Nicaragua who was supported by the United States. Defeated by Communist Sandanistas

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Anastasio Somoza

Question 10

A Vietnamese nationalist who led the Communist Party in North Vietnam during the Vietnam War.

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Ho Chi Minh

Question 11

A state of diplomatic hostility between the U. S. & Soviet Union in the decades following WWII

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Cold War

Question 12

boundary separating the communist nations of the east from democratic nations of the west

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Iron Curtain

Question 13

The independent countries that remained neutral in the Cold War

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Nonaligned nations

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Communist leader of Soviet union following the downfall of Khrushchev- crushed any revolt

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Leonid Brezhnez

Question 15

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

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Commune

Question 16

U.S. President who opposed the Soviet Union during Cold War events like Cuban Missile Crisis.

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John F Kennedy

Question 17

Leader of Communist Sandanistas in Nicaragua

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Daniel Ortega

Question 18

Leader of communists during the revolution who won because he promised land reform to peasants

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Mao Zedong

Question 19

Anti-western, anti-American fundamentalist Muslim nationalist leader of Iran.

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Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini

Question 20

Militia units formed by young Chinese people in 1966 in response to Mao Zedong

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Red Guards

Question 21

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

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Brinkmanship

Question 22

reducing Cold War tensions- adopted by the United States during the Presidency of Richard Nixon

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Detente

Question 23

Communist and Nationalist leader of Cuba

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Fidel Castro

Question 24

A military alliance formed in 1945 by the Soviet Union and 7 Eastern European countries

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Warsaw Pact

Question 25

1966-1976 uprising in China led by the Red Guards

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Cultural Revolution

Question 26

international peace keeping organization founded to provide security 2 the nations of the world

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United Nations

Question 27

Communist leader of Soviet Union following the death of Stalin

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Nikita Krushchev

Question 28

Leader of Nationalists during revolution who lost due to ineffective leadership & poor morale.

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Jiang Jieshi

Question 29

Anti-Communist US president(1981)- Helped cause the collapse of the Soviet Union

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Ronald Reagan

Question 30

This forms the border between Communist North and Democratic South Korea.

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38th Parallel

Question 31

Leader of South Vietnam during the Vietnam War who ruled as a dictator and had US support.

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Ngo Dinh Diem

Question 32

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization - a defensive military alliance formed in 1949

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NATO

Question 33

A United States program of economic aid to European countries to help them after WWII.

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Marshall Plan

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United States tried to stop the spread of communism using this method

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Containment

Chapter 17 Restructuring the Post War World

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Chapter 17 Restructuring the Post War World

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