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Vietnam War
Cold War Doctrines and Polices
In Soviet Russia...
Old Stuff
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Leader of North Vietnamese forces through the 1950s and 60s
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
100
U.S. financial aid provided to help European countries rebuild from the aftermath of WW2
What is the Marshall Plan?
100
Political leader of the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin's death
Who is Nicholas (Nikita) Khrushchev?
100
Nationalistic; Private control of all means of production; Totalitarian
What is Fascism?
200
Leader of the South Vietnamese government through the 1950's and 60's
Who is Ngo Dinh Diem?
200
Policy of Containment
What is the Truman Doctrine?
200
Leader of the Soviet Union during its fall in the late 1980s and early 90s.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
200
Most famous work of Karl Marx; outlines the philosophies of Communism
What is the Communist Manifesto?
300
Guerrilla army that formed and rebelled in Southern Vietnam
What is the Viet-Cong?
300
George Kennen wrote this to describe the physical and mental state of the Soviet Union
What is the Long Telegram?
300
Russian for openness; Gorbachev policy that allowed for more freedoms among the Russia people
What is Glasnost?
300
The countries making up the Axis powers during WW2
Who is Japan, Germany, and Italy?
400
Battle in which nearly 12 thousand French soldiers were captured by North Vietnamese Forces
What is the Battle of Dien Bien Phu?
400
First crisis of the Cold War that shaped the use of Truman's policy
What is the Crisis in Greece?
400
The period of time of Soviet history that describes Khrushchev's reign.
What is the Khrushchev Thaw.
400
Hitler's written work, outlining the struggles of Germany
What is Mien Kampf?
500
Peace convention that gave the French-Indo China colonies their independence
What is the Geneva Accords?
500
Chinese land reform law in 1950 that resulted in the death of millions of Chinese land owners
What is the Agrarian Revolution?
500
In a public speech, Khrushchev rejected this as part of his greater De-Stalinization efforts
What is the Cult of Personality (Hero Worship)?
500
Feared amongst the Western Democracies than even the looming threat of another world war
What is Communism?