COLD WAR

SUPERPOWER

• An extremely powerful nation, one of a very few dominant states in an era when the world is divided politically into these states and their satellites.

UNITED NATIONS

• An international organizations founded in 1945 to promote peace, security, and cooperation among the worlds nations.

IRON CURTAIN

• The ideological barrier that divided Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War.

CONTAINMENT

• The U.S. policy of attempting to restrict Soviet power and influence around the world by preventing the spread of communism.

MARSHALL PLAN

• A U.S. aid plan designed to promote economic recovery in Europe after World War ||.

nATO

• A mutual defense pact formed by Western nations in 1949.

WARSAW PACT

• A 1995 defense pact between the USSR and Eastern European Nations.

ARMS RACE

• A competition to achieve weapons superiority.

CULTURAL REVOLUTION

• A period of revolutionary upheaval and political persecution in China from 1966 to 1976.

KOREAN WAR

• A war from 1950 to 1953 between communist North Korea and Noncommunist South Korea that involved the Soviet and Chinese support for the North and U.S. And in support for the South.

VIET CONG

• Communist insurgents in south Vietnam

vIETNAM WAR

• The war between North and South Vietnam from the early 1950s to 1975.

DOMINO THEORY

• The belief if Vietnam fell to the communists, the rest of Asia would fall likes a row of dominoes.

COVERT ACTION

• A secret political, economic, or military operation sponsored by a government and designed to support a foreign policy objective.

DETENTE

• The easing of Cold War tensions and hostility between East and West during the 1970s.

DETERRRENCE

• The policy of building a weapons Arsenal so deadly that no other nation will dare attack.

HOW DID COLD WAR CHANGE THE WORLD?

• They decided to have nuclear weapons to destroy other nations, but now they want other nations to get rid of those nuclear weapons because of something happens there going straight to taking those nuclear weapons out and killing each other destroying our world with those technological weapons.