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Unit 11: Communism & the Cold War in Russia Vocabulary

Terms in this set (8)

A U.S. foreign policy adopted by President Harry Truman in the late 1940s, in which the U.S. tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping weak countries to resist Soviet advances
Containment
A military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and seven Eastern European countries
Warsaw Pact
A Soviet policy of openness to the free flow of ideas and information, introduced in 1985 by Mikhail Gorbachev
Glasnost
State of diplomatic hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union in the decades following World War II
Cold War
An economic program implemented in Russia by Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s, involving an abrupt shift from a command economy to a free-market economy
Shock Therapy
During the Cold War, the boundary separating the Communist nations of Eastern Europe from the mostly democratic nations of Western Europe
Iron Curtain
A restructuring of the Soviet economy to permit more local decision making, begun by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985
Perestroika
North Atlantic Treaty Organization - a defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European nations, The United States, and Canada
NATO
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