Cold War
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27 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Joseph Stalin | Name means "man of steel." Lenin believed him to be a dangerous man. |
| Winston Churchill | British Prime Minister during WWII. He declared his nation would never give in. |
| Communism | Private property does not exist and all goods and services are shared equally. |
| United Nations | International peacekeeping organization founded in 1945 to provide security to the nations of the world |
| Iron Curtain | During the Cold War, the boundary separating the Coomunist nations of Eastern Europe from the mostly democratic nations of Western Europe. |
| Truman Doctrine | A US policy anncounced by President Truman , giving economic and military aid to free natios threatened by internal or external opponents. |
| Marshall Plan | US program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after WWII. |
| Cold War | State of diplomatic hostility between the United States and Soviet Union in the decades of WWII |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization, defensive military allianced formed in 1949 by ten Western European counties, the United States and Canada. |
| Warsaw Pact | Military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and seven Eastern European countries |
| Mao Zedong | One of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party. |
| Jiang Jienshi | Feared the Communists' goals of creating a socialist economy, modeled after the Soviet Union |
| Commune | In Communist China, a collective farm on which a great number of people work and live together. |
| 38th Parallel | Dividing line between North and South Korea |
| Douglas MacArthur | Commander in WWII for the United Sates and occupied Japan during the reconstruction of the nation. |
| Ho Chi Minh | Leader of the Indochinese Communist party that led revolts against the French. |
| Domino Theory | The idea that if a nation falls under Communist control, nearby natiosn will also fall under Communist control |
| Vietcong | A group of Communist guerrillas who with the help of North Vietnam, fought against the South Vietnamese in the Vietnam War. |
| Third World | During the Cold War, developing nations not allied iwth either the United States or the Soviet Union |
| Nonaligned Nations | The independent nations that remained neutral in the Cold War pompeitition between the USA and the USSR. |
| Fidel Castro | Tried to overthrow the dictator and then ruled as a dictator for over 40 years. |
| Ayatollah Khomeini | Exiled from his country and later returned to rule it with a militant Islamic flare. |
| John F. Kennedy | US President that battled against Castro in the Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Lyndon Johson | Congress allowed this president to send in US troops to fight in Vietnam. |
| Richard Nixon | Created a policy of lessening Cold War tensions. Impeached as president becuase of watergate |
| SALT | The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks; a sieries of meetings in the 1970s, in which leaders of the US and the USSR agreed to limit their nations stocks of nuclear weapons |
| Ronald Reagan | Fiercely ani-Coomunist president that increased defense spending and put economic and defense pressure on the USSR |
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