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Chinese civil war-china was divieded in two nations
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Chiang kai-shek (or jiang jieshi) - Became the leader of nationalist china (island of twiwan)
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Mao Tse tung( or mao Zedong- and somtimes called chairman Mao) Become the leader f the communist china (mainland China)
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Battle at Dien Bien Phu- the bietnamese defeated the french and pushed them out the bietnam
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Ho Chi Minh - Became laeader of the communist north bietnam
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The united states- applied he containment theory to ending communism in vietnam by sendin troops to fight
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Indria Gandhit (indian presedent)- Developed a closer relationship with the soviet union and developed a nuclear program
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The paris peace accords- ended the fighiting in vietnam by the united states
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NOrth vietnam defeated south vietnam- vietnam was reunited as a communist contry
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Deng Xiaoping (Chinese leader)- reformed communist china's economy to a market economy leading to rapid economic growth but kept communist control of the goverment
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margret thatcher (british prime minister)- Developed a closer relationship with the united states
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Mikhail Gorbachev (soviet leader)- Instituted policies of glasnost and perestroika which led to the fall of the soviet union
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Berlin wall came down- east and west Germany re-unified
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Soviet union economic collapse and break up
