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- NATO
- north atlantic treaty organization
- nikita khrushchev
- emerged as the new soviet leader
- detente
- relaxation of tensions
- cuban missile crisis
- a crisis between US and cuba; cuba threatened us of a nuclear attack
- syngman rhee
- first president of south korea
- arms race
- two countries competed for production in making weapons
- division of berlin
- a massive concrete barrier; topped with barbed wire and patrolled by guards
- fallout shelters
- shelters that would protect people from a nuclear attack
- containment policy
- americas basic policy toward communist countries
- SEATO
- south eastern atlantic treaty organization
- nuclear non-proliferation treaty
- treaty saying that everyone will get rid of nuclear weapons
- peoples republic of china
- commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia
- who threatened the US with nuclear weapons
- cuba
- stalemate
- countries who fight and end up where they started
- bay of pigs invasion
- was an unsuccessful attempted invasion by armed Cuban exiles in southwest Cuba
- ho chi minh
- in vietnam, he led guerrila forces
- 38th parallel
- marked the center of korea
- cold war
- it was about the cuban missle crisis
- CENTO
- central europe treaty organization
- glasnost
- openness
- perestroika
- restructuring
- warsaw pact
- a pact that was made in warsaw
- military alliances
- an agreement between two or more military factions
- domino theory
- was a foreign policy theory, promoted by the government of the United States, that speculated that if one land in a region came under the influence of communism
- chinese civil war
- civil war in China between the Kuomintang (KMT or Chinese Nationalist Party) and the Chinese Communist Party
- mujahedin
- muslim religious warriors
- SALT
- strategic arms limitation treay
- economies after WWII
- had to rebuild hospitals, fire stations, police stations; many people were homeless
- kim II sung
- a communist ally of the soviet union
- mao zedong
- was a Chinese military and political leader, who led the Communist Party of China (CPC) to victory against the Kuomintang (KMT) in the Chinese Civil War
- 17th parallel
- marked the center of vietnam
- cuban revolution
- refers to the revolution that led to the overthrow of General Fulgencio Batista
- korean war
- war between northern and southern korea
- fidel castro
- organized an armed rebellion against the corrupt dictator who then ruled cuba
- red scare
- has been retroactively applied to two distinct periods of strong anti-Communism in United States