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Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill wanted to split Germany into zones of occupation controlled by
Allied military forces. Also, Germany would have to pay the Soviet Union to compensate for loss of life and property
2. The United Nations was an international organization designed to protect its members against
aggression.
3. All the member countries could vote on issues. There was an 11 member security council that
had the real power to settle disputes. The 5 permanent members if the security council, Britain, China, France, and the United States, could veto any Security Council action.
4. Containment. 5. The willingness to go to the edge of war to secure objectives. 6. It was a phrase made by Churchill that described Europes division into democratic Western
Europe.
9. NATO is called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and it was a defensive military alliance. 10. The Soviet Union wanted to keep Germany weak and divided but the Allies decided to
combine their zones in Germany and create one combined nation, so Germany took West Berlin hostage.
11. The Berlin Airlift was a plan in which America and Britian flew basic nessecities into West Berlin
12. The Warsaw Pact was an alliance formed by the Soviet Union in response to NATO, which
Vietnam.
15. The Domino Theory was a term used by President Eisenhower to describe the effect of
communism on Asian countries. The fall of one country to communism would lead to the fall of its neighbors.
16. Diem was the leader of the government that the United States and France set up in Vietnam. 17. What was the Vietcong? 18. The Vietnam War was started because the French wanted to reclaim their territory in Vietnam,
so the Vietnamese Nationalists and Communists joined together to fight the French.
19. Vietnamization is the gradual pulling out of United States troops while the Vietnamese gradually
ballistic missiles and submarine launched missiles the US and USSR could have.
21. Dtente was a policy of lessening Cold War tensions by resolving conflicts with negotiations
23. It was one of Yeltsins plans to reform the Russian economy. The plan was to lower trade
barriers, remove price controls and to end subsidiaries to state owned industries.
24. Glasnost is a policy of openness that Gorbachev adopted. 25. It was an idea that helped to improve economic structuring in Russia. This idea introduced
more capitalist ideas in the USSR, such as allowing people to open small businesses.
26. Since Korea was split into communist North Korea and non-communist South Korea, the
Russians supplied North Korea with supplies in order to start an invasion into South Korea.
27. The Cuban Missile Crisis started because Nikita Khrushchev wanted to defend Cuba from the
Embassy in Iran and held them hostage until the US put the Shah on trial.
36. The Cultural Revolution was a movement led by the Red Guards. This movements goal was to
the US and Britain. Mao created larger collective farms and controlled the lives of the peasants very strictly.
38. It was a policy of murder and other acts of brutality by which the Serbs hoped to eliminate