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chapter 29
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| trials in which an aliied military tribunal tried several dozen top nazi and military officials; many were executed for war crimes | nuremberg trials |
| an era of high tension and bitter rivalry between the inited states and the soviet union in the decades following world war 2 | cold war |
| term coined by winston churchill in 1946 to describe an imaganery line divideing communist countries in the soviet bloc from countries in westurn europe durning the cold war | iron curtain |
| u.s. president trumans pledge to provide economic and military aid to countries threatened by communism | truman doctrine |
| plan for for the economics philiosphere reconstruction of europe after world war 2 | marshall plan |
| the united states policy adapted in the in the 1940s to stop the spread of comminism by providing econimic and military aid to countries opposing the soviets | containment |
| a program in which the united states and britain shipped supplies by air to west berlin during the soviet blockcade of all routes to the city | berlin airlift |
| north atlantic treaty organization; a defenseive military alliance of twelve westurn nations formed in 1999 | nato |
| a military alliance of the soviet-dominated countries of easturn europe,established in 1955 | warsaw pact |
| a nuclear weapon that gets its power from the fusing together of hydrogen atoms | hydrogen bomb |
| the development of or maintenance of military power to detect,or prevent an attack | deterrence |
| competition between nations to gain advantge in weapons | arms race |
| the first artifical satellite;launched | sputnik |