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Cold War Vocabulary

Published on Nov 18, 2015

A slideshow briefly going through many terms used and affiliated with the cold war and giving definitions to said terms

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Iron Curtain

  • The notional barrier separating the former soviet bloc and the west prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events that occured in Eastern Europe in 1989
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United Natons

  • The United Nations is an intergovernmental orginization established 24 October 1945 to promote international cooperration. A replacement for the ineffective Leauge of Nations, the organization was created following the second world war to prevent another such conflict
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Truman doctrine

  • the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection. First expressed in 1947 by US presidant Truman in a speech to Congress seeking aid for Greece and Turkey, the doctrine was seen by the communists as an open decleraton of the cold war
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nato

  • An organization formed in Washington, D.C. (1949), comprising the 12 nations of the Atlantic Pact together with Greece, Turkey, and the Federal Republic of Germany, for the purpose of collective defense against aggresion
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brinksmanship

  • The art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, typically in politics.
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marshall plan

  • The Marshall pan was an American initiative to aid Europe, in which The united states gave $17 billion in economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of WWII
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warsaw pact

  • 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.
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containment

  • The military strategy to stop the expansion of the enemy. It is best known as the Cold War policy of the United States and its allies to to prevent the spread of communism abrad.
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cold war

  • A state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare, in paticular
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38th paralell

  • the line of latitude 38 degrees north in east Asia. which roughly marks the border between north Korea and south Korea: set by the U.S. in 1945 as a military boundary, three years before these countries were officially established
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ngo dinh diem

  • The first president of South Vietnam. In the wake of the French withdrawal from Indochina as a result of the 1954 Geneva Accords, He led the effort to create the Republic on Vietnam.
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khmer rouge

  • It was the ruling party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, led by Pol Pot, Non Chea, leng Sary, Son Sen, and Khieu Samphan. Democratic Kampuchea was the name of the state as controlled by the goverment of the Khmer Roughe from 1975 to 19709
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ho chi minh

  • North Vietnamese political leader: Pres of North Vietnam 1954- 6
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vietcong

  • A member of the communist guerrilla movement in Vietnam the fought the South Vietnamese government forces 1954-1975 with the support of the North Vietnamese army and opposed to the South Vietnamese and US forces in the Vietnam war.
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domino theory

  • The theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in other countries, like a falling domino causing and entire row of upended dominos to fall
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vietnamization

  • The US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam

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