Section 1
United Nations: An international peacekeeping organization founded in 1945 to provide security to the nations of the world.
Iron Curtain: During the cold war, the boundary sperating the communist nation of eastern europ from the mostly democratic western europe.
Containment: A U.S foreign policy adopted by president harry truman in the late 1940s in which the united states tried to stop the spread of communism.
Truman Doctrine: A U.S policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents announced by Truman in 1947.
Marshall Plan: A U.S program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after WWII
Cold War: The state of diplomatic hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union in the decades following WWII
NATO: The North Atlantic Treaty Association –A defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European nations, the United States, and Canada.
Warshaw Pact: A military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and seven Eastern European countries.
Brinkmanship: A policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy aggression.
U-2 Incident: The shooting down of a U.S spy plane and capture of its pilot by the Soviet Union in 1960.
1. Stalin's objectives were to strengthen the communist parties in the mostly democratic Eastern Europe
2. WWII impacted millions of lives, countries, and the world.
3. The Soviet Union Occupies a lot of Western Europe, Russia, and is north of China.
4. The U.S aims in Europe are to end communism.
Section 2
Mao Zedong: The communist Chinese leader that ruled northern china with the support of the Soviet Union.
Jiang Jieshi: The Nationalist leader of southern china, with foreign support from the United States
Commune: Large collective farms.
Red Guards: Millions of high school and college students that left their classrooms and formed militias
Cultural Revolution: The major uprising by the Red Guards, with the goal of Cultural Revolution was to establish a society of peasants and workers in which were equal.
1. Poor planning and inefficient “backyard” industries. Crop failures and a famine that killed 20 million people.
2. The goals of social equality. . Farm families couldn't live in their own homes. Everybody was equal.
3. It was strictly controlled, they worked the land together, they ate together, they slept together, they raised children together. And they owned nothing.
4. The crop failures between 1958 and 1961 unleashed a famine.
Section 3
38th Parallel – A line that crosses Korea at 38 degrees north latitude.
Douglas MacArthur – United States military General during Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh – A young vietnamese nationalist and communist.
Domino Theory – The fall of one to communism would lead to the fall of its neighbors.
Ngo Dinh Diem – The leader of the United State and France's anti communist government.
Vietcong – Communist guerrillas.
Vietnamization – The allowing of U.S troops to gradually pull out of north vietnamese while South
Vietnamese increased their combat role.
Khmer Rouge – Communist rebel under the leadership of Pol Pot.
1. Yes because communism is not a free government and does not give people the freedom's they deserve. The united state's interference in vietnam was only to prevent to spread of communism.
2. The U.S' policy of containment is justified under the domino theory.
3. The domino theory is a theory stating that when one democratic, or free, government falls to communism, so will the neighboring countries.
4. The U.S public opinion on communism is negative.
Section 4
Third World -Developing nations, often newly independent who were not aligned with either superpower.
Nonaligned nations – Independent countries.
Fidel Castro – A young laywer that led the Cuban Revolution.
Anastasio Somoza -The Nicaraguan dictator.
Daniel Ortega – The Sandinita leader funded by both the USA, and the Soviet Union.
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi – Iran's leader after WWII who embraced Western governments and wealthy Western oil companies.
Ayatolloh Ruholla Khomeini – The leader of the religious opposition in the 1950s, in Iran's capital, Tehran.
1. They are trying to force partnership, and democracy.
2. They supported Dictators.
3. The US has interests in these countries because they are powerful allies, and they are vulnerable to communism.