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