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Unit6vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Israeli-Palestinian conflict | the ongoing dispute between two religious groups over land and peace in the Middle East |
| Superpower | a nation a supreme authority and influence-exs. the U.S. and the Soviet Union after WWII |
| Cold War | a state of hostility between nations without actual fighting taking place-ex. the U.S and the Soviet Union from 1945-1991 |
| Marshall Plan | program created by the U.S. to help Western European countries rebuild and get back on their feet after WWII |
| Truman Doctrine | the U.S. plan to fight communism when or wherever it attempted to spread |
| Containment | the American policy meant to prevent the expansion of Communism around the world after WWII |
| Iron Curtain | an imaginary barrier between communism and mom-communism countries in Europe |
| European Union | political and economical community of European countries formed to strengthen ties between member nations and further secure world peace |
| United Nation | an international peace-keeping and peace-seeking organization of many nations begun in 1942 by those nations (North American Treaty Organization) |
| Warsaw Pact | a Communist-controlled military alliance formed after WWII in response to the creation of NATO |
| NATO | military alliance formed after WWII in order to protect Western nations from aggressive communist nations (North American Treaty Organization) |
| Intercontinental ballistic missiles. | long-range nuclear weapons built up by both sides in the Cold War |
| Mutually-Assured Destruction | the guaranteed end of both sides in a depute |
| Space Race | the competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to send a man into space |
| Sputnik | a Soviet satellite; the first satellite ever launched into space. |
| Defect | to leave one country/side for another |
| Berlin Wall | built by the East German government in an effort to keep their citizens |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | when the Soviet Union placed weapons in Cuba pointed at the U.S. bringing the world to the brink of nuclear war |
| Parallel | line of latitude |
| 38th Parallel | the line of latitude which divides Korea into north and south-communist and non-communist |
| 17th Parallel | the line of latitude that divided Vietnam into north and south-communist and non-communist |
| Domino Theory | the U.S. belief that, if one country was allowed to fall to communism, all nations nearby would also fall |
| Guerilla | a member of a small armed group who fights using unusual techniques to harass, terrorize and sabotage a larger, stronger and better-equipped army |
| Vietcong | communist guerillas who fought Americans in South Vietnam |
| Detente | a period when the U.S. and the Soviet Union worked together in an effort to avoid further conflicts during the Cold War |
| Glasnost | the loosening of restrictions in Soviet Union in an effort to allow more freedoms for its people-Russian |
| Perestroika | the restructuring of the Soviet economy in an effort to bring needed changes to Soviet society-Russian for restrucure |
| Mohandas K. Gandhi | non-violent activist responsible for gaining India's independence from British rule |
| Nelson Mandela | African activist who fought to end apartheid in South Africa |
| Apartheid | law that legally separated blacks from whites in South Africa |
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