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**1**  ** :**  any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.   2: Theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production, distribution, of capital, land, in the community as a whole.  Sources:  http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/socialism  [] **__Cold War (1945- 1991) __** [|Cold War Video]  **1: **The continuing state of political conflict, military tension, and economic competition existing after World War II. 2: rivalry after World War II between the Soviet Union and its satellites and the democratic countries of the Western world, under the leadership of the United States. 3: <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">term used to describe the shifting struggle for power and prestige between the Western powers and the Communist bloc from the end of World War II until 1989. <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> Sources: [] <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">[] []
 * __<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Socialism (Communism) : __**<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">3: **<span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> Centrally planned economy in which the government controls all means of production. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">

<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; msoasciifontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msohansifontfamily: Calibri;"> **<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; msoasciifontfamily: Calibri; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msohansifontfamily: Calibri;">__Korean War (1950- 1953)__ ** 1: War between North Korea and South Korea. The war was a consequence of both countries attempting Korean national reunification under their respective governments. The United States and the United Nations joined the side of South Korea. The fighting ended in an armistice that restored the original border of the Koreas. [|Korean War Video] <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">[|Korean War Video 2]

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 * __Vietnam War__** ( 1959- 1975)

2. It was the longest war in American history and the most unpopular American war of the twentieth century. It resulted in nearly 60,000 American deaths and an estimated 2 million Vietnamese deaths. Even today, many Americans still ask whether the American effort in Vietnam was a sin, a blunder, a necessary war, or a noble cause, or an idealistic, if failed, effort to protect the South Vietnamese from totalitarian government. Sources: [] [] ||
 * a conflict, starting in 1954 and ending in 1975, between South Vietnam (later aided by the U.S., South Korea, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand, and New Zealand) and the Vietcong and North Vietnam.


 * __NATO__** (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
 * __NATO__** (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

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