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World History Chapter 29
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Nuremberg Trials | Trials 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 US and the Soviet Union in decades following world war II |
| Iron Curtain | Term coined by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe and imaginary line dividing Communist countries in the Soviet bloc from countries in western Europe during the cold war |
| Truman Doctrine | US 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 II |
| Containment | The US policy adopted in the 1940's to stop |
| Berlin Airlift | |
| NATO | |
| Warsaw Pact | |
| Hydrogen Bomb | |
| Deterrence | |
| Arms Race | |
| Sputnik | |
| Bay of Pigs Invasion | |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | |
| Nonaligned Nations | |
| Detente | |
| Martin Luther King JR | |
| Counterculture | |
| Solidarity | |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | |
| Glasnost | |
| Perestroika | |
| Velvet Revolution | |
| Boris Yeltsin | |
| Ethnic Cleansing | |
| Internet | |
| Saddam Hussein | |
| Persian Gulf War | |
| Al Qaeda | |
| Osama Bin Laden | |
| Taliban |