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Cold War Vocab

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Cold War Vocab

United Nations

- An international organization founded in 1945 in order to maintain peace

Truman doctrine

- with the provision of truman, the us aided greece and Turkey in 1947

Nato

-a.k.a:North Atlantic Treaty Organization. created for collective security

iron curtain

-border between the soviet bloc and western europe (1945-1990)

Marshall plan

-the us' plan to help reconstruct post ww2 europe

warsaw pact

-the association and military pact between eastern european countries

containment

-restraining of a harmful and powerful country or harmful military

Brinksmanship

- the technique of manipulating a situation in order to create crisis

cold war

-the war that happened directly after ww2 between the soviet union and us

38th parallel

- latitude line that n korea and s korea used pre-war to seperate them

ngo dinh diem

- was president of south vietnam

khmer rouge

- was the name of the group who followed the "communist party of kampuchea"

ho chi minh

-was a Vietnamese leader who was also prime minister and president

vietcong

- was a political army who fought u.s. and S vietnamese in the vietnam war

domino theory

-u.s.SPECULATed if one country was taken into communism others would crash

vietnamization

- the u.s. turning the war towards the government of s. vietnam

third world

- the nations not aligned with first or second worlds

non-aligned nations

- countries that are not sided or aligned with any major power blocs

fidel castro

-was secretary-general of non-aligned movement

ayatollah ruholla khomeini

- was a religious iranian leader and lead the iranian revolution

nikita khrushchev

- lead the soviet union during the cold war

lyndon johnson

- 36th president of the united states. served in al four political offices

S.A.L.T

-two meetings between the soviet union and u.s on armament control

leonid brezhnev

- was general secretary of THE SOVIET UNION COMMUNIST PARTY

Detente

-the political calming between soviet union and united states

ronald reagan

-40th president of the united states

john f. kennedy

-35th president of the united states and was assassinated

richard m. nixon

- 37th president

anwar sadat

-president of egypt who signed a peace treaty with the p.minister of israel

camp david accords

- was a thing signed by president of egypt and prime minister of israel

P.L.O

-Was made with the purpose of creating an INDEPENDENT state of PALESTINE

INTIFADA

the Palestinian uprise against Israel

yasir arafat

- spent most of his life fighting israel. was the chairman of PLO

oslo peace accords

- was set up to end the israel-palestine war

mujahideen

- a term used to describe the muslims struggling in the path of allah

taliban

- an islamic political movement in afghanistan

Mikhail gorbachev

-was general secretary for the communist party of the soviet union

boris yeltsin

- first president of the russian federation

glasnost

- a policy that made the soviet union become more open

c.i.s

- THE WEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES OF THE SOVIET UNION

perestroIka

- A POLitical movemt to re unite the communist party in the soviet union

"shock therapy"

- induced seizures used to aid mental illness

solidarity

a movement in poland that inspired the opposition of communists

lech walesa

- polish politician

reunification

-it reunified german states in october of 1990

ethnic cleansing

-elimination of ethnic groups, closely compared to genocide