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Chapter 33 Cold War vocab//chasse

Terms in this set (25)

Berlin Airlift
The flyinv of food and supplies into west berlin by britian and the US to break soviet blockade
Ayatollah Khomeini
The ruthless leader of the Khmer Rouge
The United Nations
A world organization formed after WWII to prevent war
Brinksmanship
The willingness on the part of superpower to go to the edge of war
38th Parallel
The line that divides North and South Korea
Khmer Rouge
The communist rebels who set up a brutal government in Cambodia
Great Leap Forward
Was Mao's expansion of his 5 year plans which created large collective farms called communes
Iron curtain
Was the division between eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War
Veitcong
Were the communist rebels in south Vietnam who were supported by north Vietnam
nonaligned nations
Are countries that did not take sides with either the US or the Soviet Union
Fidel Castro
Was the communist leader of Cuba
Containment
Is the policy aimed at preventing the spread of communism
Marshall Plan
The plan to give aid to European countries to help them recover from WWII
Dètente
The policy to decrease tensions between the superpowers
SALT
The talks to limit nuclear arms in the US and the Soviet Union
NATO
Military alliance including the US, Canada, and several countries in Western Europe
Domino Theory
Says that nations were like a row of dominoes, if one fell to communism the others would fall also
Warsaw Pact
A military alliance between the Soviet Union and the countries of Eastern Europe
Yalta
President Roosevelt, Josef Stalin and Winston Churchill met in yalta to create a post WWII plan
Hi Chi Minh
The Vietnamese nationalist who drive the French out of Vietnam and who led north Vietnam
Third world
Refers to the developing nations in Africa, Asia and Latin America
Truman Doctrine
The policy of giving aid to countries threatened by communism
Cold War
Is the state of tension and mistrust between the United States and the Soviet Union after WWII
Cuban Missile Crisis
Occurred when the Soviet Union planned to place nuclear missiles in Cuba
Killing fields
Refers to he areas in Cambodia where pol pot murdered millions of people
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