"The Cold War"
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- Detente
- A policy of reducing cold war tensions that was adopted by the US during presidency of Richard Nixon.
- Salt I Treaty
- A series of meetings in the 1970s, in which leaders of the US and he Soviet Union agreed to limit thier nations stocks or neucular weapons.
- Truman Doctrine
- A US policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threatend by internal and external opponets
- Policy of Contianment
- A US foreign policy adopted by Harry Truman in the late 1940s, in which the US tried to stop communism.
- "Star Wars"
- A program to protect US agaisnt attack by enemy missles.
- Destalinization
- Niklta Knushchevs policy of eliminating all memory of Joesph Stalin and his programs in the Soviet Union.
- Third World Nation
- During the Cold War, the developing nations not allied with either the US or the Soveit Union.
- Iron Curtian
- During the Cold War, the boundary seperating the communist nations from Democratic nations.
- Cultural Revolution
- Uprising in China, led by red guard, with the goal of estabilshing a society of peasents and workers.
- United Nations
- An international peacekeeping orgainization founded in 1945 to provide security to the nations of the world.
- NATO
- The North Atlantic Organization-defensive military alliances formed in 1949 by ten western european nations.
- Warsaw Pact
- A military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and seven eastern European countries.
- Marshall Plan
- A US program of economic aid to european countries to help them rebuld after WWII.
- Brinkmanship
- A policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy agression.
- Communes
- Communist China, a collective farm on which a great number of people work and live together.