Unit 7

Nuremberg Trials: A series of trials held in Nurburg Germany.

Japan from enemy to ally: Treaty of san francisco

Yalta Conference: A conference held in Yalta where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill planned the final stages of World War II and agreed to the territorial division of Europe.

Iron Curtain: the political boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II

“Containment”: An action that keeps something harmful under control.


Truman Doctrine: Provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.

Marshall Plan: Program designed to rehabilitate the economies of western and southern European countries in order to create stable conditions.

NATO : North atlantic treaty organization

Warsaw Pact : Treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe

H-Bomb : wipe out entire cities and kill significantly more people

China 1911 : A successful revolt against the Quig dynasty,

Mao Zedong : A chinese commuist revolutionary and founding father of republic of china

“Great Leap Forward” : A plan that was created to increase China's economy and industry.

Red Guards : A member of paramilitary youth organization in china

Tiananmen Square : To declare in a big ceremony to the common people who become the emperor and who become the empress.


Korean War (basic summary of events) : Conflict between the democratic people republic of korea and the south korea

Result of Korean War : A demilitarized zone and a signing of an armistice.

Vietnam War (basic summary of events) : Pitted communist north vietnam and the viet cong against south vietnam and the united states.


Ho Chi Minh : vietnamese revolutionary leader

Domino Theory : A noncommunist state to commission would fall to noncommunist governments in neighboring states.


“1st World Countries” :
United states, Canada, australia, New Zealand, Japan

“2nd World Countries” :
Soviet union, China, cuba


“3rd World Countries” :
Asia, Africa, Latin america


Iran and the Cold War : The soviet union announces that its troops in Oran will be withdrawn within six weeks.

Afghanistan and the Cold War : Soviets sent troops to afghanistan and assumed complete military and political control of kabul and large portion of the country,


Mikhail Gorbachev : russian former soviet politician,


Glasnost : Soviet policy of open discussion of political and social issues.


Lithuania and the Cold War : Occupied from 1940 until it re-establish


Perestroika : Program instituted to restructure soviet economic and political policy.

Chechnya : A muslim region in southern russian


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