COLD WAR

SUPERPOWER

• Powerful country with very few dominent states in the era where the
• World is divided politically into these states and their satellites

UNITED NATIONS

• An international organizations founded to promote peace, security, and cooperation among the world nations

IRON CURTAIN

• An ideological barrier that divided Eastern and Western Europe during the cold war

CONTAINMENT

• A policy attempting to restrict soviet power and influence by preventing the spread of communism

MARSHALL PLAN

• An aid plan to designed to promote economic recovery in Europe after World War II

NATO

• A mutual defence pact formed by the western nations

WARSAW PACT

• A defense pact between the USSR and Eastern european nations

ARMS RACE

• Competition to achieve superiority in weaponry

CULTURAL REVOLUTION

• Revolutionary upheaval and political persecution in china

KOREAN WAR

• A war between South Korea and North Korea

VIET CONG

• Communist insurgents in the south of vietnam

VIETNAM WAR

• A war the between the south and north Vietnam

DOMINO THEORY

• A belief that if vietnam fell to communism the rest of asia would fall

COVERT ACTION

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

DÉTENTE

• The easing of tension and hostility between the east and west during the Cold War

DETERRENCE

• A policy of building a weapon arsenal so deadly no other nation would attack