| Term | Definition |
|---|
| cold war | it was about the cuban missle crisis |
| division of berlin | a massive concrete barrier; topped with barbed wire and patrolled by guards |
| who threatened the US with nuclear weapons | cuba |
| arms race | two countries competed for production in making weapons |
| SALT | strategic arms limitation treay |
| detente | relaxation of tensions |
| NATO | north atlantic treaty organization |
| SEATO | south eastern atlantic treaty organization |
| CENTO | central europe treaty organization |
| warsaw pact | a pact that was made in warsaw |
| fidel castro | organized an armed rebellion against the corrupt dictator who then ruled cuba |
| military alliances | an agreement between two or more military factions |
| cuban revolution | refers to the revolution that led to the overthrow of General Fulgencio Batista |
| bay of pigs invasion | was an unsuccessful attempted invasion by armed Cuban exiles in southwest Cuba |
| cuban missile crisis | a crisis between US and cuba; cuba threatened us of a nuclear attack |
| nikita khrushchev | emerged as the new soviet leader |
| containment policy | americas basic policy toward communist countries |
| domino theory | was a foreign policy theory, promoted by the government of the United States, that speculated that if one land in a region came under the influence of communism |
| fallout shelters | shelters that would protect people from a nuclear attack |
| red scare | has been retroactively applied to two distinct periods of strong anti-Communism in United States |
| economies after WWII | had to rebuild hospitals, fire stations, police stations; many people were homeless |
| nuclear non-proliferation treaty | treaty saying that everyone will get rid of nuclear weapons |
| chinese civil war | civil war in China between the Kuomintang (KMT or Chinese Nationalist Party) and the Chinese Communist Party |
| mao zedong | was a Chinese military and political leader, who led the Communist Party of China (CPC) to victory against the Kuomintang (KMT) in the Chinese Civil War |
| peoples republic of china | commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia |
| korean war | war between northern and southern korea |
| 38th parallel | marked the center of korea |
| 17th parallel | marked the center of vietnam |
| kim II sung | a communist ally of the soviet union |
| syngman rhee | first president of south korea |
| ho chi minh | in vietnam, he led guerrila forces |
| stalemate | countries who fight and end up where they started |
| mujahedin | muslim religious warriors |
| glasnost | openness |
| perestroika | restructuring |
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