Cold War
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- glasnost
- Gorbachev's policy of speaking out openly and honestly; a movement toward the end of the Cold War
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- closest the world has come to nuclear war; resulted when Russia began to send nuclear weapons to Cuba
- Vietnam War
- occurred because of the policy of containment; North Vietnam had invaded South Vietnam; the US supported South Vietnam
- Organization of American States
- encouraged progress in Latin America
- Marshall Plan
- plan in which the US gave economic aid to eastern European countries like Greece in order to prevent them from falling to communism
- Boris Yelstin
- democratically elected Russian leader that brought the Cold War to an end
- Korean War
- the forgotten war; occurred because North Korea invaded South Korea (crossed the 38th parallel); the US supported South Korea; armistice ended the war and no changes were made
- SALT agreements
- Strategic Arms Limitations Treaties; worked to reduce arms during the Cold War
- Berlin Airlift
- the USSR set up a blockade of Berlin; the US resonded by dropping supplies by air to the East Germans
- Berlin Wall
- set up in Berlin after the failure of the Berlin Airlift; recognized as an "iron curtain" of sorts
- Bay of Pigs Invasion
- an embarissing attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro that was organized by the US
- Iran Contra Affair
- scandal including arms sales to the Middle East in order to send money to help the Contras in Nicaragua even though Congress had objected
- domino theory
- fear that after China "fell" to communism that all other surrounding Asian countries would "fall" like dominoes
- Mao Zedong
- led the Communist Revolution in China
- NASA
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- superpower
- nation with enough strength to influence events in the world
- Truman Doctrine
- issued with a foreign policy goal of containing the spread of communism
- Fidel Castrol
- communist leader of Cuba
- John F. Kennedy
- president of the United States during the Bay of PIgs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis
- detente
- reducing of tensions between the USSR and the US which led to the end of the Cold War
- Vietcong
- North Vietnamese troops who used guerilla tactics
- Nikita Khrushchev
- leader of Russia during the Cuban Missile Crisis
- Alliance for Progress
- program set up by JFK to send economic aid to Latin America in an attempt to keep them away from communism
- Joseph McCarthy
- senator who encouraged the red scare in the US
- NATO
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization; organization of democratic countries
- Lyndon Johnson
- president during the Vietnam War after JFK was shot
- Peace Corps
- set up by JFK as an effort to help out third world countries
- Warsaw Pact
- organization of communist countries set up to counter NATO
- Ho Chi Minh
- leader of North Vietnam
- United Nations
- set up as an organization of countries that would work to keep peace in the world
- Sputnik
- first satellite launched into space; Russia won the "space race"
- containment
- policy of keeping communism from spreading
- Star Wars
- Ronald Reagan's Cold War research program that hoped to build up satellites capable of intercepting Soviet missles from space
- Ronald Reagan
- president during the Iran Contra affair
- Cold War
- about fifty years of intense conflict between the US and the USSR that never actually resulted in the two countries fighting each other
- summit meeting
- meetings of highest ranking officials from two or more nations