Cold War Begins
What did the United States believe the newly liberated Eastern European countries should be able to do?
Choose their own government.
Did food production grow after the nationalization of farms in China?
No
Soth Vietnamese soldiers who fought against the United States
Vietcong
French Prime Minister who supported nuclear testing
Charles De Gaulle
The Soviet Union's industry was focused on what benefit?
Military
Why did Britain pull their support of anti-Communist fighters in the Greek Civil War?
Financial Hardships
Where did the Chinese Nationalists flee to after the Communists took over China?
Taiwan
When two powers in conflict use their parties as substitutes instead of fighting each other
Proxy Wars
Middle Class
Period of relaxed tensions between the United States and Soviet Union
Detente
What plan promised financial aid to European countries after World War II?
Marshall Plan
The collectivization of more than 700,000 farms into 26,000 Communes
The Great Leap Forward
Where was Korea divided?
38th Parallel
Scandal where President Nixon used illegal methods to gain information on his political opponents
Watergate Scandal
What country refused to give up control to the Soviet Union?
Yugoslavia
The belief that neither countries would launch a nuclear attack knowing that both sides had a deadly arsenal of weapons
Deterrence
What did Mao want the education system in China to be focused on?
The Little Red Book
Who was the Cuban dictator during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Fidel Castro
What did West Germany experience when their unemployment rate dropped from 8% to 0.4%?
Economic Miracle
The "Asian Tigers" where South Korea, Taiwan, ______ and _____
Singapore and Hong Kong
Who emerged as the new Soviet leader in 1955?
Khrushchev
What were the "Four Olds"?
Old ideas, Old habits, Old customs, Old culture
How did the United States bring the Cuban Missile Crisis to an end?
Blockade of Cuba
One act that set up the British Welfare State
National Insurance Act
National Health Service Act
What did the new constitution that Japan was forced to sign do?
Renounce war and establish a parliament