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Unit 13: Cold War

Terms in this set (38)

United Nations
world organization formed to prevent war
Iron Curtain
division between Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War, term coined by Winston Churchill
Containment
policy aimed at preventing the spread of communism
Truman Doctrine
policy giving aid to countries threatened by communism
Marshall Plan
plan to give economic aid to countries in Europe to recover after WWII
Cold War
state of tension and mistrust between the US and Soviet Union after WWII
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, military alliance including US, Canada, and countries in Western Europe to defend each other against communist aggression
Warsaw Pact
military alliance between the Soviet Union and countries of Eastern Europe in response to NATO
Brinkmanship
willingness to go to the brink/edge of war
Mao Zedong
communist leader of China, defeated the US back Nationalists in the Chinese Civil War in 1950
Jiang Jieshi
leader of the US backed Nationalist party, was forced to flee to Taiwan after the Chinese Civil War
38th Parallel
line that separated North and South Korea after WWII
Douglas MacArthur
leader of the UN forces during the Korean War
Ho Chi Minh
Vietnamese nationalist who drove the French out of Vietnam and led the North Vietnamese against the US
Domino Theory
fear that if one nation fell to communism then other countries in the area would also fall to communism
Vietcong
Communist rebels in South Vietnam who were supported by the North Vietnamese
Ngo Dinh Diem
leader of the US supported South Vietnam
Vietnamization
Nixon's plan for gradually withdrawing US troops from Vietnam and replacing then with South Vietnamese troops
Khmer Rouge
communist rebels who set up a brutal government in Cambodia
nonaligned nations
countries that did not take sides with either the US or the Soviet Union during the Cold War
Fidel Castro
communist leader of Cuba
Ayatollah Khomeini
Muslim leader who overthrew the Shah of Iran
Nikita Khrushchev
leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin
John F Kennedy
JFK, President of the US from 1961-63
Bay of Pigs Invasion
failed attempt by the US to train and support Cuban exiles to overthrow Castro
Cuban Missile Crisis
stand off between the US and USSR when the Soviets tried to put nuclear missiles on Cuba
detente
policy to decrease tensions between the superpowers during the Cold War
Lyndon Johnson
LBJ, President of the US from 1963-69
Richard Nixon
President of the US from 1969-74
SALT I
Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty, aimed at reducing nuclear tension between the US and the Soviet Union
Ronald Reagan
President of the US from 1981-89
Berlin Airlift
the flying of food and supplies into West Berlin by the US and British air forces to break a Soviet blockade
blocakde
act of cutting of one place from others
Berlin Wall
separated the democratic West Berlin from the communist East Berlin, stood from 1961-1989
Politboro
ruling committee of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union
Mikhail Gorbachev
leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991
glasnost
Gorbachev's policy of openness
perestroika
policy aimed at reforming the Soviet economy
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