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Global 10

Global 10. Test 3.2 Review. Marshall Plan. Plan whose purpose was to help Europe rebuild after WWII. Cold War. The name for the ideological competition between the US and USSR: Democracy vs. Communism. Nuclear. Concern for this type of war deterred the US and USSR from engaging in battle.

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Global 10

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  1. Global 10 Test 3.2 Review

  2. Marshall Plan • Plan whose purpose was to help Europe rebuild after WWII

  3. Cold War • The name for the ideological competition between the US and USSR: Democracy vs. Communism

  4. Nuclear • Concern for this type of war deterred the US and USSR from engaging in battle

  5. NATO • Formed in 1949 as a mutual defense pact

  6. Containment • Name for the US policy of trying to stop the spread of communism

  7. Warsaw Pact • Communist counterpart to NATO; formed in 1955

  8. Satellites • Status of most East European countries after WWII

  9. Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Putin • Leaders (6) of Soviet Union after Lenin

  10. Berlin Wall • Built to prevent East Germans from escaping to West Germany

  11. Arms Race • Expensive competition for weapons superiority during cold war

  12. Perestroika • Gorbachev’s program to improve the efficiency of the Soviet economy

  13. Coup • Word that means a sudden overthrow of a government

  14. Gorbachev • Soviet leader who increased freedom of expression and free enterprise (capitalism), and whose programs caused cold war tensions to decrease

  15. Glasnost • Russian word for “openness;” a program of Gorbachev

  16. Fall of Berlin Wall; Reunification • Two events in Germany that symbolized the end of the cold war

  17. Communist • Political Party that dominates the Chinese government

  18. Great Leap Forward • Mao’s program whose goal was to increase industrial and agricultural production

  19. Cultural Revolution • Chinese program (1960s) to promote and glorify Mao

  20. One-Child Policy • Policy enacted in the late 70s/early 80s in China to deal with overpopulation

  21. Peasants • Support from this group helped the Bolsheviks and Chinese Communists to be successful in their revolutions

  22. Overpopulation • Lack of housing, difficulty in meeting people’s needs, and the one-child policy are all caused by this problem

  23. A Pro-Democracy Protest • What took place in Tiananmen Square in 1989?

  24. Oil • Natural resource that is one of Japan’s most critical needs; imports over 90% from Middle East

  25. Favorable Balance of Trade • Exports greater than imports

  26. United States • Nation that gave economic aid to Japan to create an ally against communism

  27. Pol Pot • Hitler’s “Final Solution” can be compared to this leader’s actions in Cambodia

  28. Domino Theory • Name for the theory that if one nation became communist, others around it would also

  29. Vietnam • The US underestimation of the determination of its enemy was a reason for failure in this war (1960s/70s)

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