AP World History Cold War
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Cold War | the struggle between the communist and democratic nations after World War II. The tension between the U.S. and S.U. |
| espionage | spying |
| Potsdam Conference | The final wartime meeting of the leaders of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union was held at Potsdamn, outside Berlin, in July, 1945. Truman, Churchill, and Stalin discussed the future of Europe but their failure to reach meaningful agreements soon led to the onset of the Cold War. |
| Eastern Bloc | Nations favorable to the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe during the cold war-particularly Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Rumania, Hungary, and East Germany |
| Marshall Plan | a United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952) |
| Nuremberg Trials | Series of trials in 1945 conducted by an International Military Tribunal in which former Nazi leaders were charged with crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, and war crimes |
| Berlin Aircraft | allies dropped food into West Berlin |
| NATO | Organization formed in 1949 as a military alliance of western European and North American states against the Soviet Union and its east European allies. |
| Warsaw Pact | An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO |
| Technocrat | an expert who is a member of a highly skilled elite group |
| European Union | an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members |
| NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement; allows open trade with US, Mexico, and Canada |
| Truman Doctrine | President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology |
| Red Scare | a period of general fear of communists |
| CIA | Central Intelligence Agency; collects intelligence information and takes part in secret actions against foreign targets |
| Containment Policy | the U.S. policy containing communism using any means possible |
| Domino Theory | the idea that if a country fell to communism so will the ones next to it. |
| Korean War | The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea. |
| DMZ | Demilitarized zone, an area from which warring parties agree to remove their military forces. |
| Brinkmanship | the policy of pushing a dangerous situation to the brink of disaster (to the limits of safety) |
| Geneva Conference | meeting in which Vietnam was split along the 17th parallel line |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | U.S. president sent troops without congressional approval |
| Tet Offensive | turning point in the war when North Vietnamese attacked the U.S. |
| Vietnamization | the idea was to have the south Vietnamese take over |
| Ho Chi Mihn | Communist: controlled North Vietnam |
| Boat People | after the Vietnam War, refugees who escaped from Vietnam in small boats. |
| New Feminism | New wave of women's rights agitation dating from 1949; emphasized more literal equality that would play down domestic roles and qualities for women; promoted specific reforms and redefinition of what it meant to be female |
| destalinization | social process of neutralizing the influence of Joseph Stalin by revising his policies and removing monuments dedicated to him and renaming places named in his honor |
| Khrushchev | became the ruler of the Soviet Union After the death of Joseph Stalin |
| Solidarity | Polish trade union created in 1980 to protest working conditions and political repression. It began the nationalist opposition to communist rule that led in 1989 to the fall of communism in eastern Europe. |
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