SS6H1(c) Flashcard

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He was a former communist dictator of Cuba who led the ouster of Fulgencio Batista in the 1959 Cuban Revolution

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Fidel Castro

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sociopolitical, military, and economic conflict between the world’s Western capitalist democracies (i.e., Western Europe and the United States) and its Eastern communist regimes (i.e., the USSR and China) from the end of World War II through 1991

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Cold War

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a government system wherein private ownership is largely forbidden and all industries and resources are under the control of the state

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Communist

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the act of overthrowing an existing governing authority

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coup

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1962 Cold War event wherein the Soviet Union, with the agreement of the​Castro regime, placed intermediate and medium-range ballistic missiles on the island of Cuba which were capable of striking the United States

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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economic policy which blocks all trade with a given nation, typically due to safety and/or humanitarian concerns; embargoes are also enacted to sanction enemy nations

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Embargo

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President of the United States at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis

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John F. Kennedy

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leader of the Soviet Union at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis

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Nikita Khrushchev

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a bridged name used to describe the former communist government of Russia during the Cold War; also known as the U.S.S.R.

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Soviet Union

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former president and later dictator of Cuba prior to the 1959 Cuban Revolution

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Fulgencio Batista