| Term | Definition |
|---|
| President Truman | us president during start of cold war |
| Joseph Stalin | the ussr leader in the beginning of the war |
| President Eisenhower | signed the truce that brought an armed peace along the border of South Korea |
| President Kennedy | president during, the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Space Race, the American Civil Rights Movement and early events of the Vietnam War. |
| Khrushchev | After Joseph Stalin died _______ became the leader of USSR |
| President Johnson | us president, authorized sending of combat troops to Vietnam |
| President Nixon | pulled US out of war in Vietnam |
| Mao Zedong | the person who led the communist revolution in CHINA |
| Ho Chi Minh | took control of N. Vietnam, supported communism |
| Fidel Castro | led the communist revolution in CUBA |
| President Reagan | started "star wars" escalated the Cold war (hint: he used to be an actor) |
| Gorbachev | last head of USSR, made many reforms that gave people more freedom |
| President George H.W. Bush | president when the Cold War ended |
| Cold war | the competition between the us and the ussr over which nation would dominate the post-war era |
| marshall plan | US gave Europe money to rebuild after WWII |
| truman doctrine/containment | US would stop communism from spreading to new nations |
| satellite nation | a nation that appears to be independent but is really controlled by another nation (in this case the USSR-everything revolves around the USSR *hint hint*) |
| iron curtain | the imaginary border between communist and capitalist Europe (or east and west) |
| domino theory | the fear that if one nation in a region went communist, others would follow |
| N.A.T.O. North Atlantic Treaty Organization | us, canada, western europe belonged to... |
| Warsaw pact | ussr and eastern europe part of... |
| M.A.D. | mutually assured destruction |
| McCarthyism | the intense anti-communist suspicion led by Joseph McCarthy (also called red scare) |
| Vietnaminzation | When Nixon tried to encourage S. Vietnam to take more responsibility. He replaced American soldiers with S. Vietnam ones. |
| Detente | the permanent relaxation in international affairs during the cold war |
| S.A.L.T. | Strategic Arms Limitation Talks- the limitation of weapons |
| Sputnik | the first man made satellite sent into outer space (sent by ussr) |
| Star Wars | the missile defense system |
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