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The United Nations

Published on May 05, 2016

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

The Cold War

Vocabulary

The United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945 to solve world conflicts.
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The Iron Curtain

The  boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas

Containment

An American policy to prevent the spread of communism.
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Truman Docterine

An American foreign policy created to aid nations from imperialistic forces.
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Marshall Plan

An American plan to aid Western Europe.

The Cold Waar

A state of political and military tension between U.S.A and Russia.

N.A.T.O

A global military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty

Warsaw Pact

An alliance  between the Soviet Union and some Eastern European countries.
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Brinksmanship

The practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping

38th Parallel

The border between North and South Korea prior to the Korean War.
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Ho Chi Minh

 A Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader who was prime minister of Vietnam 

Domino Effect

 A theory that if one region came under communism, others will follow.
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Ngo Dinh Diem

A Prime Minister of Vietnam who was Assasinated in 1963.
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Vietcong

The name given by Western Europe during the Vietnam War.
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Vietnamization

A policy by Richard Nixon to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War
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Khmer Rouge

The name given to the followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea in Cambodia.
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Third World

The developing countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Nonaligned Nations

Third World countries that rejected alliance with the United States or the Soviet Union.

Fidel Castro

A revolutionary, communist prime minister of Cuba
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Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini

Supreme religious, political leader of Islam.

Nikita Khrushchev

 A politician who led the Soviet Union during the Cold War
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Leonid Brezhnev

 The Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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John F. Kennedy

The 35th President of the United States of  America

Lyndon Johnson

Vice President turned President after the death of John Kennedy
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Detente

The period of eased tensions between the U.S.A and Russia
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Richard Nixon

The 37th President of the U.S.A / The only President to resign from office
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SALT

The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks between the U.S and the Soviet Union

Ronald Reagan

The 40th President of the U.S.A

Anwar Sadat

Former President of Egypt during the 1970s.

PLO

The Palestine Liberation Organization
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Yasir Arafat

Former Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization

Camp David Accords

An act that called for a peace treaty to be signed between Israel and Egypt

Intifada

A revolt against Isralians staying at the West Bank.
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Oslo Peace Accords

 Agreements between the government of Israel and the PLO.

Mujahideen

Someone who is part of Jihad.
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Taliban

An Islamic political movement in Afghanistan.
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Mikhail Gorbachev

The last leader of the Soviet Union

Glasnost

A Soviet policy to emphasize political and social issues.

Perestroika

 A political movement for change within the Communist Party
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Boris Yeltsin

The first President of the new Russian Federation.

C.I.S

An organization of differeent states after the collapse of the Soviet Union
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"Shock Therapy"

A therapy in which the patients are electrified to help with mental issues.
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Solidarity

The independent trade unions response to the Communist government in raising prices for basic goods. 

Lech Walesa

A former polish politician who founded Solidarity

Reunification

The Reunification is the unification of two parts of Germany.
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Ethnic Cleansing

The mass killing of people of an ethnic or religious group