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Iran and the Cold War : The soviet union announces that its troops in Oran will be withdrawn within six weeks.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