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Cold War

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Cold War
An intense rivalry that lasted fifty years.
Detente
Nixon's effort to reduce tensions between the superpowers.
Berlin Airlift.
Planes that would drop food and supplies into west Berlin.
Peace Corps
A program that sends people to teach in developing countries.
38th Parallel
the dividing line between south and North Korea.
draft
A system of mandatory enlistment.
Lyndon B Johnson
a president who put America in Vietnam.
Khmer Rouge
Won the civil war in Cambodia.
boat People
refugees that escaped on boats
United Nations
An organization that promoted peace and tried to help solve international conflicts.
Mao Zedong
the communist leader of china.
Blockade
A shutting of a port to keep supplies and people from moving in or out.
SALT agreement
An agreement to a limit of arms.
Cuban Missile Crisis
A crisis that Cuba had missiles with a communist leader.
Joseph McCarthy
A secratary of Wisconsin that announced that the U.S government had communist inside it.
martial Law
emergency military rule
Truman Doctrine
A program that tried to encourage nations to resist communism expansion.
Demilitarized Zone
An area with no military forces.
Ho Chi Minh
A Vietnamese nationalist and communist leader.
Guerrillas
Fighters that do hit and run attacks on the enemy.
Krushchev speech at UN
When the soviet leader came and addressed hoping to be friendly with the U.S. it was a symbol that the cold war had become global.
Warsaw Pact
The alliance of West Berlin and the Soviet Union
domino theory
A theory that if one country did something the others near it would follow.
George Marshall
the secretary of state who proposed the Marshall plan.
Boris Yeltsin
the leader that help protest against communism.
Mikhail Gorbachev
A communist leader of Soviet Union
satellite Nation
A nation that is dominated politically and economically by a more powerful one.
Exiles
People that had been forced to leave their country.
Nikita Khrushchev
A soviet Leader.
NASA
A space program that was setup to compete with the soviets.
Solidarity
an independent labor union.
iron curtain
the expansion of the soviet union.
Summit meeting
A meeting between the highest ranking officials in the world.
perjury
Lying under oath.
Alliance for progress
A aid program that help Latin America.
Vietcong
Guerrillas who opposed Diem
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The bombing of North Vietnam.
OAS
Promoted Economic progress in the Americas.
Tet offensive
A invasion of Guerrillas during Tet.
Marshall plan
A plan that provided aid to western European countries.
Star Wars
Reagan's plan to destroy soviet missiles from space.
Harry Truman
The president in the beginning of the cold war.
Censure
officially condemn.
Capitalism
an economy where there is representatives and democracy.
Communism
an economic system in which all wealth and property are owned by state.
atomic bomb test
when the atomic bomb was tested.
superpowers
nations with enough political, military and economic strength to influence events worldwide
Containment
to keep something within existing boundaries.
Ronald Reagan
The president of the U.S and helped in the cold war.
Bay of Pigs Invasion
A poorly planed invasion where the U.S land 1,200 exiles in the bay of pigs.
Douglas MacArthur
A famous general that fought in the Korean war and was fired by truman
Glasnost
Openly speaking
NATO
The alliance of west European countries and the U.S

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