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Chapter 29

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Nuremberg trials trials in which an Allied military tribunal tried several dozen top Nazi and military officers; many were executed for war crimes
Cold War an era of high tension and bitter rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union in the decades following WWII
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 US president Truman's pledge to provide economic and military aid to countries threatened by communism
Marshall Plan (1947) plan for the economic reconstruction of Europe after WWII
containment the US policy adopted in the 1940s ti stop the spread of communism by providing economic and military aid to the countries opposing the Soviets
Berlin Airlift a program in which the US and Britain shipped supplies by air to West Berlin during the
NATO
Warsaw Pact
hydrogen bomb
deterrence
arms race
sputnik
Bay of Pigs invasion
Cuban missile crisis
nonaligned nations
detente
Martian Luther King Jr.
counterculture
Mikhail Gorbachev
glasnost
perestroika
Velvet Revolution
Boris Yeltsin
ethnic cleansing
Internet
Saddam Hussein
Persian Gulf War
al Qaeda
Taliban
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