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President Richard Nixon’s strategy for ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, involving a gradual withdrawal of American troops and replacement of them with South Vietnamese forces.
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a policy of reducing Cold War tensions that was adopted by the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon.
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President Richard Nixon’s strategy for ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, involving a gradual withdrawal of American troops and replacement of them with South Vietnamese forces.
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a policy of reducing Cold War tensions that was adopted by the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon.
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a U.S. foreign policy adopted by President Harry Truman in the late 1940s, in which the United States tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping weak countries to resist Soviet advances.
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announced by President Harry Truman in 1947, a U.S. policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents.
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an agreement in which nations promise not to attack one another.
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a declaration of principles issued in August 1941 by British prime minister Winston Churchill and U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt, on which the Allied peace plan at the end of World War II was based.
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the idea that if a nation falls under Communist control, nearby nations will also fall under Communist control.
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an international peacekeeping organization founded in 1945 to provide security to the nations of the world.
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the state of diplomatic hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union in the decades following World War II.
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a policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy aggression.
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Line of latitude that crosses Korea. When World War II ended, Korea was divided into two nations at this line. North of the parallel a communist government was installed; south of the parallel, a non-communist government.
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a 1966–1976 uprising in China led by the Red Guards, with the goal of establishing a society of peasants and workers in which all were equal.
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during the Cold War, the boundary separating the Communist nations of Eastern Europe from the mostly democratic nations of Western Europe.
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militia units formed by young Chinese people in 1966 in response to Mao Zedong’s call for a social and cultural revolution.
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a group of Communist guerrillas who, with the help of North Vietnam, fought against the South Vietnamese government in the Vietnam War.
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in Communist China, a collective farm on which a great number of people work and live together.
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a mass slaughter of Jews and other civilians, carried out by the Nazi government of Germany before and during World War II.
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city neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live.
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the systematic killing of an entire people.
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Hitler’s program of systematically killing the entire Jewish people.
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June 6, 1944—the day on which the Allies began their invasion of the European mainland during World War II.
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“lightning war”—a form of warfare in which surprise attacks with fast-moving airplanes are followed by massive attacks with infantry forces.
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a series of court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II, in which Nazi leaders were tried for aggression, violations of the rules of war, and crimes against humanity.
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during World War II, a Japanese suicide pilot trained to sink Allied ships by crashing his bomb-filled plane.
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a reduction in a country’s ability to wage war, achieved by disbanding its armed forces and prohibiting it from acquiring weapons.
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Why were the early months of World War II referred to as the Phony War?
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Why was Egypt of strategic importance in World War II?
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Why was the outcome of the Battle of Britain important of for the Allies?
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How did the Allies try to conceal the true location of the D-Day landings?
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How does US spending on the war compare with that of other countries?
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Which nation listed in the chart suffered the greatest human cost?
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What combination led to the German defeat at the Battle of Stalingrad?
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What was the goal of Hitler’s “Final Solution”?
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From where did the troops landing at Gold Beach cross the English Channel?
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What country did the Allies invade on D-Day?
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Why did the Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto feel it was necessary to attack Pearl Harbor?
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What was the result of Doolittle’s raid on Japan in April 1942?
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Drag each statement to the true or false category.
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Read each statement and place it in the true or false category
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The mobilization in the United States for the war in
Europe and Asia was possible because of the close
working relationship between
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A minority group that was not important in war
production in factories at home was the:
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What was the Manhattan Project?
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One reason for the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 was to:
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was initially formed to:
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One way in which the Korean War and the Vietnam War are similar is that both:
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The primary purpose of the United Nations is to:
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The events in these headlines contributed to the:
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Match each statement which the appropriate category, Sputnik or Apollo
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What played a key role in the French, Russian, Chinese, and Cuban revolutions?
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Which characteristic was associated with the Great Leap Forward in China?
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What caused the Chinese to send 300,000 troops to North Korea?
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Read each statement about the Vietnam War and decide if each statement is true or false.
