WH:Unit 6 Vocab

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Cold War: Conflict between the U.S. and Soviet Union with competing systems; no direct warfare.

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Conflict between the two “Superpowers” with competing economic and political systems. The U.S. and Soviet Union never directly engaged each other in open warfare.

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Domino Effect

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If Vietnam fell to communists, the rest of Asia would fall like dominoes.

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Berlin Wall

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A barrier separating West Berlin from East Berlin and East Germany to isolate the area.

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Containment

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U.S. policy to restrict Soviet power and prevent the spread of communism.

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Mao Zedong

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Marxist leader of the Communist Revolution in China, head of the People's Republic until 1976.

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Great Leap Forward

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Mao Zedong’s program for food production, organizing people into farming communes, leading to millions of deaths.

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Korean War

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Communist North Korea invaded South Korea. The U.S. and U.N. intervened, forcing the Communists back. The armistice left Korea as it was.

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Vietnam War

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War between Communist N. Vietnam and U.S.-backed S. Vietnam; began with Viet Cong's guerilla warfare.

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Cultural Revolution

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Revolutionary upheaval and political persecution in China (1966-1976)

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Communism: An economic system by Karl Marx aiming for a classless society with collective ownership of production and equal sharing of goods.

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An economic system by Karl Marx aiming for a classless society with collective ownership of production and equal sharing of goods.