A Polish trade union movement, founded in 1980, that challenged communist rule and contributed to the fall of communism in Poland and Eastern Europe.
Solidarnoลฤ (Solidarity)
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+ Pick one important figure you have learned about this year and explain who they were and what they did.
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Berlin Wall
A concrete barrier built in 1961 to prevent East Berliners from fleeing to West Berlin, symbolizing Cold War divisions; it fell in 1989.
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Sandinista Revolution
A 1979 uprising in Nicaragua that overthrew dictator Somoza and brought a socialist government led by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN).
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A US policy introduced in 1947 to stop the spread of communism by providing military and economic aid to countries threatened by Soviet influence, starting with Greece and Turkey.
Truman Doctrine (Containment)
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The leader of the Chinese Communist Party who led the revolution, established the People's Republic of China in 1949, and ruled until his death in 1976.
Mao Zedong
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A military alliance created in 1955 by the USSR and its Eastern Bloc allies as a response to NATO, ensuring Soviet control over Eastern Europe.
Warsaw Pact
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Iron Curtain
A symbolic and physical division between the communist Eastern Bloc and the capitalist West during the Cold War, first used by Winston Churchill in 1946.
A Cold War strategy where both the US and the USSR built large nuclear arsenals, ensuring that any attack would lead to total destruction of both sides, prevent
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Hungarian Revolution
A 1956 uprising against Soviet rule in Hungary, calling for democracy and independence, violently suppressed by Soviet forces.
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+ What was the Bandung Conference?
A conference (April 1955 in Bandung, Indonesia) where delegates from newly independent African and Asian Countries met to affirm independence desires
