Social Studies Vocab: Post World War II
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| Cold War | State of hostility between nations without actual fighting taking place
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| Containment | American policy meant to prevent the expansion of Communism around the world
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| Marshall Plan | Economic program created by the United States to help Western European countries to rebuild and get back on their feet economically after World War II
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| Cuban Missile Crisis | Period in time when the Soviet Union placed weapons 90 miles from the coast of the United States and brought the world to the brink of nuclear war
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| Apartheid | Law that legally separated blacks from whites in South Africa
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| Mohandas K. Gandhi | Non-violent activist for the independence of India from British rule.
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| Israeli-Palestinian conflict | Ongoing dispute between two religious groups over land and peace in the Middle East
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| Berlin Wall | Barrier build by the East German government in an effort to keep their citizens from escaping West
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| NATO | Military alliance formed after World War II in order to protect Western nations from aggressive communist nations
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| Warsaw Pact | Communist-controlled military alliance formed after World War II in response to the creation of NATO.
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| United Nations | Union begun in 1942 as those united against the Axis powers in World War II, later becoming an international peace-keeping and peace-seeking organization of many nations.
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| Communism | a totalitarian form of government or economy in which one party controls all means of production.
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| Demilitarized Zone | an area from which all weaponry is removed and prohibited.
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| 17th Parallel | the line of latitude from which Vietnam was divided into north and south
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| 38th Parallel | the line of latitude from which Korea was divided into north and south
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| Iron Curtain | coined by Winston S. Churchill, it is an imaginary barrier to the passage of people and information between the former Soviet Union and its supporting countries and the West.
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| Sputnik | a Soviet satellite; the first satellite ever launched into space.
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| Democracy | a multi-party system of government in which the people have a say in their own lives.
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| Superpower | a nation of supreme power and influence, especially the United States and the former Soviet Union.
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| Space Race | the competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to send a man into space.
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| Truman Doctrine | the U.S. plan to fight communism when or wherever in the world it attempted to spread.
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