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Cold War
Question | Answer |
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Cold War | War of ideals between the US and USSR |
Superpower | Most powerful nations, no one can match their military strength |
Satellite State | Countries controlled by more powerful nations |
Containment | policy to keeping communism in the places that already had it |
United Nations | Peacekeeping organization started after WWII |
Truman Doctrine | Presidents plan to stop the spread of communism worldwide |
Marshal Plan | put $13 billion into Western Europe to stop countries from becoming communist |
Warsaw Pact | Alliance made up of countries with Communist governments |
NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization, alliance of countries with democratic governments |
Iron Curtain | term for invisible political line that divided Europe |
Space Race | competition between two superpowers to conquer space |
De-Stalinization | Policy in USSR that reduced the use of terror and freed political prisoners |
Domino Theory | idea that if one country fell to communism, others would as well |
Perestroika | policy of restructuring the USSR |
Glasnost | Policy of political openness in USSR |