COLD WAR

SUPER POWER

• a very powerful and influential nation (used especially with reference to the US and the former Soviet Union when these were

UNITED NATIONS

• The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on 24 October 1945

IRON CURTAIN

• the notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989.

CONTAINMENT

• the action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits.

MARSHALL PLAN

• European recovery program

NATO

• The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.

WARSAW PACT

• Warsaw Pact definition. A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. Organized in 1955 in answer to NATO, the Warsaw Pact included Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union.

ARMS RACE

• a competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons, especially between the US and the former Soviet Union during the Cold War.

CULTURAL REVOLUTION

• The Cultural Revolution was a chaotic mass movement in the People's Republic of China. Mao Zedong launched it in 1966, claiming that elitists were undermining the government and Chinese society.

KOREA WAR

• The Korean War was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union.

VIET CONG

• a member of the communist guerrilla movement in Vietnam that fought the South Vietnamese government forces 1954–75 with the support of the North Vietnamese army and opposed the South Vietnamese and US forces in the Vietnam War.

VIETNAM WAR

• The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and also known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam

DOMINO THEORY

• the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall.

COVERT ACTION

• Covert action is one of many foreign policy tools used by policymakers to advance national interests. Used in select international efforts, covert action encompasses a broad range of activities outside the operations of traditional intelligence collection.

DÉTENTE

• the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries.

DETERRENCE

• the act or process of deterring: as. a : the inhibition of criminal behavior by fear especially of punishment. b : the maintenance of military power for the purpose of discouraging attack.

The Cold War changed the world by presenting a immediate factor causing the realization that nuclear war is an imminent threat. The realization was quick to spread and has caused countries to arm them selves with nuclear weapons.