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Topic 9 and 10 Vocab Frayers
Topic 9 and 10 Vocab Frayers
Cold War
392
Marshall Plan
394
NATO
394
Warsaw Pact
394
• The Warsaw Pact provided for a • Was the Warsaw Pact communist?
unified military command and • The Soviet Union and its affiliated
the systematic ability to Communist nations in Eastern
strengthen the Soviet hold over Europe founded a rival alliance,
the other participating countries. the Warsaw Pact, in 1955.
Berlin Wall
395
• The official purpose of this Berlin • The Wall cut off West Berlin
Wall was to keep so-called Western from surrounding East
“fascists” from entering East Germany, including East Berlin.
Germany and undermining the
socialist state, but it primarily
served the objective of stemming
mass defections from East to West
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MAD
396
Proxy wars
Described on 397
38th parallel
412
Ho Chi Minh
414
• The details of Hồ Chí Minh's life • While working as the cook's helper
before he came to power in on a ship in 1912, Thành (Ho)
Vietnam are uncertain. He is known traveled to the United States. From
to have used between 50 and 200 1912 to 1913, he may have lived in
pseudonyms. Information on his New York City (Harlem) and Boston,
birth and early life is ambiguous where he claimed to have worked as
and subject to academic debate. a baker at the Parker House Hotel.
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Domino theory
415
• the theory that a political event • The domino theory was a Cold War
in one country will cause similar policy that suggested a communist
events in neighboring countries, government in one nation would
like a falling domino causing an quickly lead to communist
entire row of upended dominoes takeovers in neighboring states,
each falling like a perfectly aligned
to fall. row of dominos.
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nonalignment
435
Darfur
445
• Although violence is still occurring • Yet Darfur was not saved. There
in Darfur, it is at a low level and the has been no political agreement
region is increasingly stable. The to end the civil war between
UNAMID forces are exiting as there Darfuri rebel groups and
had been a reduction to the Sudan's government.
number of troops deployed in the
field in Darfur, Sudan.
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Suez Canal
450
• In 1962, Egypt made its final • The Suez canal is a significant route
payments for the canal to the for energy, commodities, consumer
Suez Canal Company and took full goods and componentry from
control of the Suez Canal. Today Asia and the Middle East to Europe.
the canal is owned and operated The canal's location also makes it a
by the Suez Canal Authority. key regional hub for shipping oil
and other hydrocarbons.
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theocracy
451
OPEC
452
Oslo Peace
Accords
456
The Oslo Accords created a The documents themselves were
Palestinian Authority tasked with signed by Mahmoud Abbas for the
limited self-governance of parts of PLO, foreign Minister Shimon Peres
the West Bank and Gaza Strip for Israel, U.S. Secretary of State
Warren Christopher for the United
States and foreign minister Andrei
Kozyrev for Russia.
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• A domesticated animal
descended from an ancient,
extinct wolf … the first species
domesticated by humans
dog
• A shiba inu, an Anatolian • Dog is related to wolf, since the
shepherd, a Shitzhu both evolved from the same
ancestors