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Ho Chi Minh
Communist revolutionary leader who was prime minister and president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. -
United Nations
An international organization composed of most of the countries of the world. -
Superpower
a very powerful and influential nation -
Truman Doctrine
Program made to encourage countries to resist communist expansion -
Jules & Ethel Rosenberg
USSR Spies -
The Berlin Blockade
The Berlin Wall was made -
Draft
Listing of people into the army -
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization -
Demilitarized zone
The space near the 38th parallel that cannnot have any military -
Douglas Macarthur
General that led the attack against North Korea -
Korean War
North Korea invaded South Korea in hope to control them and spread communism -
Landing at Inchon
Marines force made a surprise amphibious landing at the strategic port of Inchon, on the west coast of Korea, about 100 miles south of the 38th parallel and 25 miles from Seoul -
Joseph McCarthy
Former Senator -
Marshall Plan
For European Recovery -
Fidel Castro
General in Russia -
Vietcong
political organization and army in South Vietnam and Cambodia that fought the United States and South Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam War -
Warsaw Pact
Russia's version of NATO -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Failed military attack on cuba by the US -
Che Guevara
Communist Guerilla -
John F. Kennedy
President Of the united states -
Berlin Wall
Blockade between Berlin and the world -
Cuban Missle Crisis
Russia sent Missles to Communist Cuba -
Union of Soviet Socialist Republicans
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Nikita Khurshchev
Russian politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident -
Vietnam War
US involved in war in vietnam -
Tet Offensive
Supprise guerilla attacks -
Communism collapses
Russia no longer is communist -
Armistise
an agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time; a truce -
Salt agreement
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks -
Ronald Reagan
40th president of the US -
Star Wars
Attack System for the US -
Detente
efforts to reduce conflict with superpowers -
Glasnost
Russian term for speaking out openly -
Mikhail Gorbachev
Former Soviet Statesman
