PRESENTATION OUTLINE
38th parallel: dividing line between North and South Korea.
Ahimsa: the principle of nonviolence toward all living things.
Bay of Pigs: 1961 failed invasion of Cuba by a CIA led force of Cuban exiles.
Berlin Airlift: program in which US and British pilots flew supplies to West Berlin during a Soviet blockade.
Containment: policy of keeping communism contained within its existing borders.
Domino Theory: idea that if a nation falls to communism, its closest neighbors will also fall under communist control.
Free Enterprise: an economic system in which private business operates in competition and largely free of state control.
Glasnost: Russian term for "openness" a policy in the Soviet Union in the 1980's calling for open discussion of national problems.
Guerilla Warfare: nontraditional combat methods.
Gulf of Tonkin: 1964 congressional resolution that authorized President Johnson to commit US troops to South Vietnam and fight a war against North Vietnam.
Hot Spots: the war was fought in Third World Countries, such as Vietnam, Korea, Cuba, Afghanistan, Iran, Nicaragua and Greece.
Nuclear deterrence: the credible threat of retaliation to forestall enemy attack.
Perestroika: a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980's.
Refugee: a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.
Superpower: a powerful and influential nation ( US and the USSR)
Truman doctrine: established that the US would provide political, military and economic assistance
United Nations: organization founded in 1945 to promote peace.
Warsaw Pact: a military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe.
Yalta Conference: was the WWII meeting of the heads of the government of the US, UK, and Soviet Union.
Zionism: a movement for the re-establishment and the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel.
Fidel Castro: Cuban revolutionary and politician and governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008.
Winston Churchill: a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955
Mikhail Gorbachev: final leader of the Soviet Union and before was general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union fro 1985 until 1991.
John F. Kennedy: the 35 president of the United States, responsible for the Cuban Missile Crisis to Detente during Cold War.
Nikita Khrushchev: a politician that led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War.
Douglas MacArthur: American five-star general and field Marshal of the Philippine Army.
Nelson Mandela: South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician and philanthropist, served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.
Ho Chi Minh: Vietnamese communist revolutionary leader who was a prime minister and president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
Ronald Reagan: American politician and actor who was the 40th president of the US.
Mao Zedong: Chinese communist revolutionary and Founding father of the People's Republic of China.
