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| satellite nations | this gorup consisted entirely of Eastern European nations |
| satellite nations | this group was dependent on and dominated by the Soviet Union |
| Berlin airlift | this action provided vital supplies to a region blockaded by the Soviet Union |
| Joseph Stalin | he signed a nonagression pact with Hitler in 1939 |
| United Nations | both the US and USSR joined this group after WWII |
| Harry Truman | he arranged for about $600 million in aid to be sent to postwar Turkey and Greece |
| NATO | this defensive military alliance was the first military alliance that the US ever entered during peacetime |
| Marshall Plan | this aid package was directed "not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos" |
| Cold War | this term refers to the indirect but hostile conflict between the US and the USSR that began at the end of WWII |
| Balfour Declaration | this is the name given to a 1917 letter from a British foreign secretary who seemed to make promises to both Zionists and Palestinians |
| Suez Crisis | this occured in 1956 when Egyptian president Gamal Nasser siezed control of certain French and British interests in Egypt |
| Six-Day War | this resulted in Israel's 1967 annexation of the Sinai Peninsula, the Golan Heights, Jerusalem, and the West Bank |
| Golda Meir | in the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, this Israeli prime minister (a former Wisconsin resident) launched a counterattack to regain lost territory |
| Menachem Begin | in 1978, this Israeli prime minister signed the Camp David Accords and agreed to return the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt |
| Anwar Sadat | this Egyptian president signed the Camp David Accords and reconized Israel as a legitimate state, enraging many Arabs |
| Hosni Mubarak | this Egyptian president took office after the assassination of Anwar Sadat by Muslim extremists in 1981; he has kept the peace with Israel |
| PLO | this terrorist group conducts violent attacks against Israel, which, in return, bombs the Palenstinian towns from which it operates |
| Yitzhak Rabin | this Israeli prime minsiter signed the Oslo peace agreement, won the Nobel Prize, and was assassinated in 1995 by a Jewish extremist |
| Yasir Arafat | terrorist leader of the PLO |
| Muhammad Ali Jinnah | leader of the Muslim League who supported the partition of India |
| Indira Gandhi | Indian prime minister who was assassinated by Sikh extremists for ordering the attack on the Golden Temple |
| Anwar Sadat | Egyptian prime minister who signed the Camp David Accords |
| Rajiv Gandhi | former prime minister of India who was assassinated by a Tamil terrorist |
| Fidel Castro | he accepted Soviet aid for Cuba |
| Fidel Castro | communist dictator of Cuba |
| Cuba | Fidel Castro is the communist dictator of this country |
| Nikita Khrushchev | he squared off against Kennedy during the Berlin crisis |
| John F. Kennedy | he squared off against Khrushchev during the Berlin crisis |
| Limited Test Ban Treaty | this barred the explosion of nuclear devices in the atmosphere |
| hot line | this was a direct communication link set up during Kennedy's presidency |
| flexible response | this military strategy was adopted during the Kennedy presidency |
| Geneva Accords | this temporarily divided Vietnam along the 17th parallel |
| Tonkin Gulf Resolution | this granted the US president broad military powers in Vietnam |
| Operation Rolling Thunder | this was the first extensive bombing of North Vietnam |
| Dien Bien Phu | when this fell ot Vietnamese forces, the French began to leave Vietnam |
| domino theory | this is based on the idea that countries on the brink of communism were waiting to fall one after the other |
| Ho Chi Minh Trail | this allowed Communists in North Vietnam to supply military arms to the government opposition group in SOuth Vietnam |
| Vietminh | this was a South Vietnamese opposition group that carried out thousads of assassinations of South Vietnamese government officials |
| Ho Chi Minh | he led the Indochinese Communist Party and fough French, Japanese, and US forces for the independence of Vietnam |
| Ngo Dinh Diem | this Vietnamese anti-Communist declared himself the ruler of SOuth Vietnam and canceled elections that were supposed to unify Vietnam |
| strategic hamlet program | this South Vietnamese policy was intended to combat the growing popularity and presence of an antigovernment group in the SOuth's countryside |
| Vietcong | this group, formed by Vietnamese Communists and other nationalist groups in 1941, declared its single goal to be independence from foreign rule |
| Iraq | this nation invaded Kuwait in 1990 |
| USSR | Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as the president of this nation |
| Iraq | this nation's actions led the US and its allies to launch Operation Desert Storm |
| Soviet Union | this nation was the one most directly affected by the domestic policies known as glasnost and perestroika |
| Henry Kissinger | he served as the top US negotiator in Vietnam |
| silent majority | in an attempt to win support for his war policies, Nixon made a special appeal to this group |
| Khmer Rouge | this Communist group seized power in Cambodia after the US invasion of that coutnry unleased a brutal civl war |
| My Lai Massacre | this murder of 100 innocent Vietnamese villagers by US troops shocked Americans when it was finally revealed to the public |
| War Powers Act | this requires a president to inform Congress within 48 hours if US forces are sent into a hostile area without a declaration of war |
| Pentagon Papers | publication of this revealed, among other things, that the Johnson administration had lied to the American public about its intentions in Vietnam |
| Vietnamization | this was specifically designed to bring an end to America's involvement in Vietnam and to bring about "peace with honor" in Vietnam |
| War Powers Act | this states that US troops are not remain longer than 90 days in a hostile area without Congressional approval or a declaration of war |
| Agent Orange | the US military used planes to spray this leaf-killing toxic chemical that devastated the landscape of Vietnam |
| Robert McNamara | as secretary of defense in the Johnson administration, he helped to craft and guide the US policy in Vietnam |
| napalm | to expose Vietcong tunnels and hideouts, US planes dropped this gasoline-based bomb that set fire to the jungles of Vietnam |
| search-and-destroy mission | conducted by US soldiers, these resulted in the uprooting of Vietnamese villagers with suspected ties to the Vietcong, the killing of their livestock and the burning of their villages |
| William Westmoreland | as the US commander in South Vietnam, this general introduced the concept of the body count in the belief that as the number of Vietcong casualties rose, the Vietcong would eventually surrender |
