Unit Seven - Postwar Era

Going to the brink of war to make your enemy back down

How did the U.S. secure victory in the "Space Race"?

Struggle over political differences that is carried out by any means other than military action

The relief program established after WWII to help rebuild Europe and resist communism

Eisenhower's belief that all other Asian countries would fall to communism, like Vietnam

A group of communist guerrilla fighters in Vietnam

Where former Nazi party members were brought to justice for various "crimes against humanity"

A communist rebel group in Cambodia led by Pol Pot

A policy directed at blocking Soviet influence by allying with weaker nations

What government did Japan adopt after WWII?

Where Churchill, FDR, and Stalin agreed to divide Germany into zones

The processof creating a new government elected by the people

A policy created by Khrushchev intending to purge the Soviet Union of his predecessor's memory

Disbanding of armed forces

An international organization created to prevent its members from aggression

What did President Nixon prove his committment to détente?

How were Europeans affected by WWII?

a rocket first developed by the Soviet Union that could travel long distances

Nixon's plan to slowly remove troops from Vietnam

Ultimately a failure, this plan called for the creation of communes under the direction of Mao

Lessening of tensions between nations

Why did Nationalists fail to overthrow Communists in China?

The Soviet Union had the right to prevent their satellite countries from rejecting communism

the name given to undeveloped countries

A defensive military alliance made up of ten nations, including the U.S. and Canada

The Soviet Union's military alliance

The line dividing North and South Korea

When the president agreed to support all countriesthat rejected communism

Large farms where peasants worked and lived together

The stand-off in Latin America between the U.S. and the Soviet Union