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Cold War
Chapter 29
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nuremberg Trail: | Trails in which an Allied military tribunal tried several dozen top Nazi and military officials;many were executed for war crimes |
| Cold war: | An era of high tension and bitter rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union in the decades following World War 2 |
| Iron Curtain: | Term coined by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe an imaginary line dividing Communist countries in the soviet bloc from countries in Western Europe during the Cold war |
| Truman Doctrine: | U.S. president Truman's pledge to provide economic and military aid to countries threatened by communism |
| Marshall Plan: | Plan for the economic reconstruction of Europe after World War 2 |
| Containment: | The United States policy adopted in the 1940s to stop the spread of communism by providing economic and military aid to countries opposing the Soviets |
| Berlin Aircraft: | Program in which the United States and Britain shipped supplies by air to west Berlin during the Soviet blockade of all routes to the city |
| NATO: | North Atlantic Treaty Organization;a defensive military alliance of twelve Western nations formed in 1949 |
| Warsaw Pact: | A military alliance of the Soviet-dominated countries of Eastern Europe,established in 1955 |
| Hydrogen Bomb: | Nuclear weapon that gets power from the fusing together of hydrogen atoms |
| Deterrence: | Development of or maintenance of military power to deter,or prevent |
| Arms Race: | Competition between nations to gain an advantage in weapons |
| Sputnik: | The first artificial satellite;launched by the soviet union |
| Bay of Pigs Invasion: | The failed attempt of Cuban exiles backed by the U.S. to overthrow the Cuban socialist government of Fidel Castro |
| Cuban Missile Crisis: | Confrontation bewtween the United States and the Soviet missiles in Cuba |
| Nonaligned Nations: | Nations who refused to ally with either side in the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union |
| Detente: | Efforts taken by U.S. president Nixon in the late 1960s and early 1970s to lower Cold War tensions |
| Matrin luther King Jr: | American civil rights leader;he was a celebrated and charismatic advocate of civil rights for African Americans in the late 1950s and 1960s.He was assassinated in 1968 |
| Counterculture: | A rebellion of teens |
| Solidarity: | |
| Mikhail Gorbachev: | |
| Glasnost: | |
| Perestroika: | |
| Velvet Revolution: | |
| Baris Yeltsin: | |
| Ethnic Cleansing: | |
| Internet: | |
| Saddam Hussein: | |
| Persian Gulf War: | |
| Al Qaeda: | |
| Osama bin Laden: | |
| Taliban: |
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