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Chapter 33

Restructuring the Postwar World

TermDefinition
Eastern Bloc Countries Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, East Germany, Albania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Yugoslavia.
Berlin Airlift The U.S. and its allies decided to supply their sectors of Berlin from the air, using planes, during the Cold War.
Non-Military Competition Between U.S. and USSR The Space Race and trying to influence other countries' governments.
Marshall Plan Also known as the European Recovery Program, was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. It was enacted in 1948 and provided more than $15 billion to help finance rebuilding efforts on the continent.
Great Leap Forward Was an economic and social campaign led by the Chinese Communist Party from 1958 to 1962. Chairman Mao Zedong launched the campaign to reconstruct the country from an agrarian economy into a communist society through the formation of people's communes.
Reasons why China and USSR Split Was caused by differences in perspective that arose from their different interpretations and practical applications of Marxism–Leninism, as influenced by their different goals during the Cold War.
Domino Theory Was a theory prominent in the United States from the 1950s to the 1980s that posited that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.
Khmer Rouge Goal The party's aim was to establish a classless communist state based on a rural agrarian economy and a complete rejection of the free market and capitalism.
Fidel Castro Was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and President from 1976 to 2008. Ideologically he was a Marxist–Leninist, and Cuban nationalist.
Bay of Pigs Was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution.
Cuban Missile Crisis Was a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union which escalated into an international crisis when American deployments of missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of similar ballistic missiles in Cuba.
Ayatollah Khomeini Was an Iranian politician, revolutionary, and cleric.
Detente Is the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries.
Truman Doctrine Was an American foreign policy with the primary goal of containing Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War.
Iron Curtain Was a political boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
Mujahedeen Guerrilla fighters in Islamic countries, especially those who are fighting against non-Muslim forces.
Cultural Revolution Was a violent socio-political purge movement in China from 1966 until 1976.
China Red Guard Was a mass student-led paramilitary social movement mobilized and guided by Chairman Mao Zedong in 1966 through 1967, during the first phase of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
Nonalignment Lack of alliance or affiliation with other nations or groups, especially politically.
Containment The action or policy of preventing the expansion of a hostile country or influence.
Division of Korea the division of Korea began at the end of the war in 1945. An understanding reached between the United States and Soviet Union. Soviet troops would occupy the parts north of the 38th parallel and US troops would occupy those south.
Brinksmanship Is the practice of trying to achieve an advantageous outcome by pushing dangerous events to the brink of active conflict.
United Nations Is an intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
Super Powers The USSR and the United States.
Korean Conflict Was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and insurrections in the south.
Vietnam War Was a long conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The conflict was intensified by the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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