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Terms | Definitions |
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 STAR WARS (SDI) | Reagan's defensive program; laser beams and satellites would shoot down USSR missiles |
| "ping-pong" diplomacy | through an exchange of athletes, Americans visited China for the first time since 1949 |
| EPA | Environmental Protection Agency; set up to protect nature and human health issues |
| impeach | legal process to formally charge an elected official with misconduct in office |
| summit meeting | conference between the highest-ranking officials of different nations |
| domino theory | Eisenhower's theory that if one nation comes under Communist control then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control |
| brinksmanship | The principle of not backing down in a crisis, even if it meant taking the country to the brink of war. |
| INF treaty | Reagan and Gorbachev signed this treaty, which provided for the dismantling of all short and medium range nuclear weapons in Russia and all of Europe |
| guerrillas | small bands of fighters who weaken the enemy with surprise raids and hit-and-run attacks |
| Solidarity | Polish trade union created to protest working conditions. It began the opposition to communist rule that led in 1989 to the fall of communism in eastern Europe. |
| glasnost | a policy of the Soviet government allowing freer discussion of social problems |
| silent majority | middle class Americans who do their job, respect their country and want law and order at home; Nixon appealed to them |
| SALT | Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty; between the United States and the USSR; designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons |
| superpower | a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world |
| moral majority | group that supported Reagan; returned to conservative, religious values |
| detente | Nixon's policy; relaxation of tensions between the United States and its two major Communist rivals, the Soviet Union and China |
| satellite nations | Communist nations in Eastern Europe under the USSR's control |
| perestroika | Mikhail Gorbache's policy that restructured the economy in communist Russia towards a market economy |
| Reaganomics | Reagan's theory that included tax breaks for the rich; "trickle down" theory, wasn't very successful |
| Truman Doctrine | President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | 1964 Congressional resolution authorizing President Johnson to take military action in Vietnam |
| Sputnik | first satellite launched by Moscow in 1957 and sparked U.S. fears of Soviet dominance in technology. It led to the creation of NASA and competition in missile production |
| Pentagon Papers | President Nixon tried to prevent these papers from being published; highlighted errors made in Vietnam. |
| Berlin Airlift | airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin |
| Iran-Contra Affair | Reagan administration sold weapons to Iran and used the money to support the Contras in Nicaragua; CIA operation |
| George Marshall | US Secretary of State organized program that helped Europe recover after WWII |
| Douglas MacArthur | General in charge of UN forces in Korean War, forced to give up command by President Truman. |
| Mao Zedong | Chinese communist leader who won revolution in 1949 |
| Henry Kissinger | United States statesman who negotiated the end to Vietnam and opening China to the US under Nixon |
| Oliver North | Iran-contra affair, officer who took $ to Nicaragua |
| Nikita Khrushchev | Leader of the USSR during the Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms |
| Leonid Brezhnev | replaced Khrushchev after the Cuban Missile Crisis; signed SALT agreement with Nixon in Moscow |
| Boris Yeltsin | President of the Russian Republic in 1991. Helped end the USSR and force Gorbachev to resign. |
| Ho Chi Minh | communist leader of North Vietnam |
| Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein | Washington Post reporters who uncovered Watergate |
| Betty Friedan | American Feminist, writer of The Feminine Mystique, cofounded NOW |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | first woman supreme court justice. appointed by Reagan |
| Ayatollah Khomeini | Religious leader of Iran, led the 1979 revolution and ordered the invasion of the US Embassy |
| Joseph McCarthy | United States senator who accused many citizens of being Communists with no evidence of the charge |
| Anwar Sadat | president of Egypt who signed the first peace treaty with Israel |
| Menachem Begin | Leader of Israel who signed a peace treaty with Egypt withdrawing from Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip and returning them to Egypt |
| Lech Walesa | Polish leader who organized Solidarity; elected president of Poland in the first free election in 50 years. |
| Fidel Castro | Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a communist state in Cuba |
| William Levitt | Created Levittown--the first "cookie cutter" suburb |
| Great Society | LBJ's dream policy of fighting poverty and racial injustice in the US |
| Reza Pahlavi | Shah of Iran until Islamic revolution; US support of his regime led to the Iran Hostage Crisis |
| Reykjavik Summit | Reagan and Gorbachev discussed banning nuclear weapons; gains were made |
| Chernobyl | nuclear power plant in Russia that had an explosion in 1986 & released radioactive materials into the air |
| Neal Armstrong | first man in the moon, "one small step for man one giant leap for mankind" |
| Helsinki agreement | 35 nations pledged to respect basic rights such as religious freedom and freedom of thought; Ford's accomplishment |
| CREEP | Committee to RE-Elect President; Nixon's team that organized Watergate break-in |
| Woodstock | 1969 music festival that signified the counterculture of the late 1960s |
| babyboomers | people born from 1946 - 1964; youth culture was created |
| Bay of Pigs | 1961invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles with CIA support; complete failure under John F. Kennedy |
| Peace Corps | Kennedy's program established to send volunteers to help developing nations |
| Tet Offensive | 1968 attack by Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces throughout South Vietnam; moral defeat for US forces |
| Three Mile Island | Nuclear Power Plant in Penn. which failed, causing radiation to be admitted in the air |
| Interstate Highway Act | 1950s plan to build 41,000 mi of highway; met the need of suburban growth and was a means to transport missiles |
| containment | Truman's policy designed to keep the Soviet Union from expanding its power |
| counterculture | Young americans in 60s who rejected conventional customs & mainstream culture |
| Khmer Rouge | communist party in Cambodia that imposed a reign of terror |
| Vladmir Putin | replaced Yeltsin, elected president of USSR in 2000 |
| United Nations | organization founded after World War II to promote international peace and cooperation. |
| Iran Hostage Crisis | a group of Iranians overran the American embassy in Iran's capital of Tehran and took 52 hostages |
| USSR invasion of Afghanistan | 1980 invasion resulted in the US boycotting the Moscow Olympics; the war weakened the USSR. |
| 38th parallel | Official dividing line between North and South Korea. |
| Yalta Conference | Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill planned post-war of WWII; it resulted in a divided Europe. |
| Tiananmen Square | Chinese students protested for democracy in 1989; Chinese military crushed the revolt |
| fallout shelter | a shelter to protect occupants from the fallout from an atomic bomb |
| arms race | Race to get the most weapons between the U.S. and U.S.S.R |
| Red Scare | Intense fear of communism |
| Non-proliferation Treaty | Treaty signed by 175 nations in 1968 which limited the spread of nuclear weapons. |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization- alliance created after WWII to provide security for member nations |
| proxy war | US and USSR fighting over ideologies in a third country. |
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