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Europe and North Ame
chapter 29
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Numbering trials | trials in which an allied millitary 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 II |
| iron curtain | term coined by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe an imagainary line dividing communist countries in the soviet bloc from countries in western Europe during the cold war. |
| Truman Doctorine | |
| Marshall plan | |
| containment | |
| Berlin airlift | |
| NATO | |
| Warsaw Pact | |
| hydrogen bomb | |
| deterrence | |
| arms race | |
| Sputnik | |
| Bay of Pigs invasion | |
| Cuban missile crisis | |
| nonaligned nations | |
| detente |