Who is the leader of the revolution against Fulgencio Batista in Cuba was
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Developing nations not allined with either the united states or the soviet union
During the cold war the third world consisted of?
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the U.S. provided food, machinery, and other materials to help rebulid wester Europe
What is the Marshall Plan?
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Policies in which the US tried to stop the spread of communism
What is containment?
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This period of time post-World War II-late 80s/early 90s when the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as superpowers and faced off in a global competition for supremacy.
What is the cold war?
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Prime minister, Muhammad Mossadeq
The Iranian leader who, after World WarII, embrased western goverments and wealthy western oil companies was
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Nonaligned nations
What are the countries that remained independent of either of the cold war superpowers were called?
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1955 treaty blinding the soviet union and countries of eastern europe, and an alliance against NATO
What is the Warsaw pact?
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a policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy aggresion
What is the brinkmanship?
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They were the first free elections ever held in Nicaragua.
What was significant about the 1990 elections in Nicaragua?
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ayatollahs
Conservative Muslim leaders in Iran were known as?
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Soviet buildup of missles in cuba
The 1962 confrontation in Cuba between the united states and the Soviet Union was caused by
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Organization founded after World war II to promot international peace and security
What is the United Nations?
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The Taliban
An organization of Islamic religious students who established a harsh and repressive rule were known as
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A Muslim revolt threatened to overthrow Afghanistan's Communist regime.
Why did the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan
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US general who was in charge of the UN forces in Korea befour being forced to relinquish command by President Truman
who is Douglas MacArthur
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El Salvador
In the civil war in Nicaragua the united states switched its support from the Sandinista rebels to
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The goal of NATO was to protect themselves from soviet aggresion, the goal of the warsaw pact was to protect themselves from the US aggresion.
What were the goals of NATO, and the warsaw pact?
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the idea that the fall of one nation to communism would lead to the fall of its neighbors
What is the domino theroy
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Line of latitude that separated North and South Korea
What is the 38th parallel
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They supported anti-communist forces.
In what ways were U.S. actions in Nicaragua, Cuba, and Iran similar?