cold war vocab
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| Cold War: the
ideological conflict
between the United
States and the Union
of Soviet Socialist
Republics during the
second half of the
20th century
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| Iron Curtain | Iron Curtain: Name
given the line that
separated Western
(Free) Europe and
Soviet controlled
communist East
Europe
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| Superpower: an
extremely powerful
nation
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| Domino Theory | Domino Theory: a
theory that if one
nation becomes
Communist-controlled
the neighboring
nations will also
become Communistcontrolled
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| Communism: a final
stage of society in
Marxist theory in
which the state has
withered away and
economic goods are
distributed equitably
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| Satellite Nation: a
country that is
dominated politically
and economically by
another nation.
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| Sphere of Influence | Sphere of Influence:
an area not within its
own borders where
the interest of one
large nation are
considered to be
supreme.
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| Berlin Airlift | Berlin Airlift: a 327-
day operation in
which U.S and
British planes flew
food and supplies
into West Berlin after
the Soviets
blockaded the city in
1948.
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| Containment | Containment: the
blocking of another
nation’s attempt to
spread its influence,
especially the efforts
of the United States
to block the spread of
Soviet influence
during the late 1940s
and early 1950s.
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization | North Atlantic Treaty
Organization
(NATO): a defensive
military alliance
formed in 1949 by ten
Western European
countries, the United
States, and Canada
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| Ballistic Missile | Ballistic Missile: a
rocket-powered
object, often carrying
a nuclear warhead,
which is shot into the
air and hits its
ground target after a
free fall.
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| Collective Security: | Collective Security: a
system of
maintaining world
peace and security by
concerted action on
the part of the
nations of the worldv
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| Subversives: people
who work secretly
inside a country to
overthrow the
government.
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| Blacklist: a list of
about 500 actors,
writers, producers,
and directors who
were not allowed to
work on Hollywood
films because of their
alleged Communist
connections.
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| Brinkmanship: the
practice of
threatening an enemy
with massive military
retaliation for any
aggression.
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| Limited War | Limited War:
President Truman’s
plan to keep the
Korean War on the
Korean Peninsula,
rather than enlarging
it by attacking China
or using nuclear
weapons.
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| United Nations | United Nations: an
international
peacekeeping
organization to which
most nations in the
world belong,
founded in 1945 to
promote world peace,
security, and
economic
development.
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| Berlin Wall: a concrete
wall that separated East
Berlin and West Berlin
from 1961 to 1989, built
by the Communist East
German government to
prevent its citizens
from fleeing to the
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| Hotline | Hotline: a
communication link
established in 1963 to
allow the leaders of the
United States and the
Soviet Union to contact
each other in times of
crisis.
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| Peaceful Coexistence | Peaceful Coexistence:
competition without
war, or a policy of
peace between
nations of widely
differing political
systems and
ideologies, especially
between Communist
and non-Communist
nations
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| Détente | Détente: the flexible
policy, involving a
willingness to
negotiate and an
easing of tensions
that was adopted by
President Richard
Nixon and his adviser
Henry Kissinger in
their dealings with
communist nations.
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