PRESENTATION OUTLINE
17th Parallel...Line of latitude that separated North and South Vietnam
38th Parallel...line of latitude that separates North and South Korea
Armaments...military weapons and equipment
Arms Race...Cold War competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union to build up their respective armed forces and weapons
Berlin Wall...wall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West.
Chiang Kai Shek...General and leader of Nationalist China after 1925/ succeeded Sun Yat-sen as head of the Guomindang and became a military dictator whose major goal was to crush the communist movement led by Mao Zedong/ ultimately failed and fled to Taiwan
Chinese Civil War...war between communist Mao Zedong and nationalist Chaing Kai Shek/communists took over and forced the nationalists to retreat to Taiwan
