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Terms and People of the Cold War

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People and terms of the Cold War

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President during the Korean War, he believed in containment and he fired MacArthurHarry S. Truman
Leader of Cuba, he started the communist regime in Cuba and remains in power today.Fidel Castro
Leader of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War.Ho Chi Minh
Leader of Communist China that pushed the Chinese Nationalists into Taiwan and founded the People's Republic of China.Mao Zedong
President of the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis and he also ordered the Bay of Pigs invasion.John F. Kennedy
President of the United States who was instrumental in the space race, the development of suburbs/cookie cutter houses, and was a former General/Leader of the AEF during World War II.Dwight D. Eisenhower
This presient took over after JFK was killed. He took the United States into the Vietnam War.Lyndon B. Johnson
President of the United States who used the campaign promise to end the Vietnam War quickly as a way to get elected. The war actually escalated under his presidency.Richard M. Nixon
This president asked the Gorbachev, the Soviet leader to "Tear down that wall" thus ending the Cold War.Ronald Reagan
The government policy of keeping communism in place and to not let it spread.containment
U.S. Senator who tried to accuse government officials and military officers of being communists. He created the red scare.Joseph McCarthy
The theory that if one Asian country fell to communism, that they would all fall.Domino theory
The symbol of the cold war that divided East and West Berlin.The Berlin Wall
Germany was divided into 4 sections at this conference.Pottsdam Conference
The first Russian satellite sent into space.Sputnik
Leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile CrisisKhrushchev
Leader of the U.N. forces in Korea and was instrumental in getting Japan established as a Democracy.Douglas MacArthur
North and South Korea were divided at the ?38th Parallel
North and South Vietnam were divided at ?17th Parallel
Disatrous effort to overthrow Fidel Castr by using 1500 Cuban Exiles that were trained in the United States.The Bay of Pigs Invasion.


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