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 organization 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 II

NATO

• A mutual defense pact formed by western nations in 1949

WARSAW PACT

• A 1955 defense pact between the USSR and Eastern Europe 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

KOREA WAR

• A war from 1950 to1953 between communism North Korea and South Korea that involve Soviet and Chinese support for the north and U.S 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 that if Vietnam fell to the communist,the rest of Asia would fall like row of dominoes

COVERT ACTION

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

DETENTE

• The easing of Cold War tensions and hostility between east and west during the 1970s

DETERRENCE

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