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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

United Nations

the get together of the nations to prevent having another world conflict.

truman Doctrine

U.s. helping other countries against the soviet union
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Nato

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

IRON CURTAIN

a wall seperating east and west 

Containment

keeping someone or something in a controlled enviroment

Marshall Plan

An american plan to help europe with their money problems

Cold War

a short conflict that started after ww2 due to money problems from the war.

warsaw pact

Defense treaty formed by communist.

brinkmanship

doing dangerous plans trying to attain the best advantage.

38th parallel

border of north and south korea.

Ho Chi Minh

communist leader, prime minister, president of the democratic republic of vietnam

domino theory

any country that turned into a communist republic, surrounding contries would soon follow
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Ngo dinh diem

first president of south vietnam
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Vietcong

political organiztaion, in south vietnam that fought america
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Vietnamization

nixon wanting to end u.s. envolvement in the war

Khmer rouge

ruling party in cambodia
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third world

asia, africa, latin america
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Ayatollah ruholla khomeini

revolutionary leader

nonaligned nations

american bases in certain foreign  countires
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fidel castro

cuban politician

nikita  Khrushchev

russian politician

leonid Brezhnev

former secertary of the soviet union

john f kennedy

35th president of the united states

lyndon johnson

36th president of the united states
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Détente

easing hostility between countries

Richard m. nixon

37th president of the united states

salt

strategic arms limitation talks

Ronald reagan

40th president of united states

anwar  sadat

3rd president of egypt

plo

palestine liberation organiztaion

yasir arafat

palestinian leader

camp david accords

peace treaty between egypt and isreal

intifada

uprising

oslo peace accords

arabian israeli peace treaty

Mujahideen

muslim   afghan warriors

taliban

islamic militant group

Mikhall Gorbachev

former soviet statesman

glasnost

a policy that called for increased openness and transparency in the goverment

perestrolka

policy of reforming of political system

boris yeltsin

russian politician

cis

commonwealth of independent states
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shcok therapy

electrically induced pain

Solidarity

mutual support in a group

Lech Walesa

polish politician

reunification

process of uniting again
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Ethnic cleansing

mass killing of an ethnic or religion group