social studies chapter 17
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- detente
- reduced Cold War tensions; salt I treaty; Ronald Regan
- chinese entrance into the Korean War
- they entered because they were afraid of invasion
- vietcong
- communist guerrillas who lived in but fought against the South
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Soviets put missiles in Cuba; causes US to set up a naval quarentine
- containment
- US tried to stop the spread of communism; harry truman; US gave aid to any non communist country
- douglas macarthur
- general in korean war who suggested use of nuclear bombs
- peoples republic of china
- communist
- NATO
- defensive military alliance
- USSR space satellite
- triggered the space race
- Marshall plan
- US gives aid to any European country
- mao zedong
- china's leader
- truman doctrine
- when the US gives finantial aid to any free country in need
- bay of pigs
- CIA trained Cuban exiles to overthrow Castro
- 3rd world countries
- developing nations no allied with either the United States or the Soviet Union
- iron curtin
- line separating communist east from democratic west
- republic of china
- democratic
- USSR invasion of afghanistan
- invaded them to reestablish a communist regime
- domino theory
- one country falls, they all fall
- brinkmanship
- threatenting to go to war; john f. kennedy; cuban missile crisis
- warsaw pact
- military alliance including the Soviet Union and seven Eastern European countries