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Discussed the US policy of containment used to help Greece and Turkey

Truman Doctrine

Churchill’s term for the figurative dividing line between Communist and non-Communist areas of Europe

Iron Curtain

Military governor of Japan after World War II; led UN forces in the Korean War until he was fired

General Douglas MacArthur

Soviets try to take West Berlin by cutting off all ties to West Germany and how the US stopped that from happening

Berlin Blockade and Berlin Airlift

US sends $14 billion to western European nations to help them rebuild after World War II

Marshall Plan

Advocated détente with the US; sent the Red Army to Czechoslovakia; restalinized

Leonid Brezhnev

Gorbachev’s main policies for reforming the USSR

Glasnost and Perestroika

Destalinized USSR; allowed more freedoms and economic incentives; got into trouble with Cuban Missile Crisis, Berlin Wall and was forced to retire

Nikita Khrushchev

Lenin’s plan to introduce free enterprise and the profit-motive into the USSR to help the economy recover after the Russian Civil War

NEP (New Economic Policy)

. A violent uprising of the industrial workers will occur against the factory owners vs. a violent revolution of peasants will occur against the noble landowners because of the leadership of an elite revolutionary PARTY

Marx vs. Lenin

First non-Communist leader of Russia after the USSR collapsed; resigned due to alcoholism

Boris Yeltsin

Emperor of Japan allowed to remain in power because he admitted he wasn’t a god

Hirohito

Nationalist leader of China; formed the Nanjing military dictatorship; lost the Chinese Civil War and fled to Taiwan

Chiang Kai-shek

First of the family of deranged dictators in North Korea

Kim Il-sung

More moderate leader of China after Mao’s death; proposed the Four Modernizations that led to explosive economic growth in China

Deng Xiaoping

Pacifist leader of Indian nationalism; assassinated

Mohandas Gandhi

First Prime Minister of India; advocated industrialization, separation of church and state, modernization, and non-alignment

Jawaharlal Nehru

Great modernizer of Turkey; his nickname literally means “Father of the Turks”

Mustafa Kemal

Founder of the PLO; leader of Palestinians; renounced terrorism and led the Palestinian Authority; signed the Oslo Accords

Yassir Arafat

Prime Minister of Israel AND the leader of Egypt who signed the Camp David Accords after President Carter helped them negotiate

Menacham Begin and Anwar el-Sadat

The Balfour Declaration fulfilled this Jewish goal of establishing a homeland in the Middle East

Zionism

War for Israeli Independence, Suez War, Six Day War, Yom Kippur War, First and Second Lebanon Wars

Arab-Israeli Wars

First prime minister of Israel; Zionist leader

David Ben-Gurion

. The “shaking”; intense violent protesting by Palestinian youth against continued Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip

Intifada

1948 Decision that created Israel and should have created Palestine

UN Partition of Palestine