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SS Cold War
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Superpowers | United States and the Soviet Union |
| Cold War | the war of ideals |
| United Nations | peace organization to prevent hot wars |
| Satellite | countries controlled by a more powerful nation |
| Policy of Containment | to hold back on the spread of communism |
| Truman Doctrine | promised to stop the spread of communism |
| Marshall Plan | pumped $13 billion into the reigon |
| Occupation Zones | The Allied Powers occupied and managed a zone |
| Berlin Airlift | cargo planes filled with supplies kept people of West Berlin alive |
| Warsaw Pact | an alliance made up of countries with Communist Governments created by the Soviet Union |
| CENTO | Central Treaty Organization had six members Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan,Great Britain,and the United States |
| Hot Spot | is an area with a lot of tension and where fighting could break out at anytime |
| Iron Curtain | an invisible political line |
| De-Stalinization | reduced the use of terror and released millions of political prisoners |
| Space Race | the two superpowers, The U.S and the Soviet Union competed with one another to conquer outer space |
| Nuclear Anihilation | to completely destroy something |
| Great Leap Forward | a five-year economic plan |
| Communes | 30,000 people lived and work together |
| Cultural Revolution | an effort to rid China of communist opposition |
| Red Guard | revolutionary groups made up mostly of young people |
| Four Modernizations | new policies in industry, culture, science and technology and defense |
| Domino Theory | other countries would fall due to Communists like a row of dominos |
| Geneva Accords | divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel into Communist and non-Communist governments |
| Blockade | close off |
| General George Marshall | suggested that the U.S Congress should give money to the Western European nations |
| Nikita Khrushchev | the leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin died |
| Mao Zedong | was a Chinese Communist leader who started the Cultural Revolution |
| Deng Xiaopong | look Mao Zedong's place and started the Four Modernizations |
| General Douglas MacAruthur | wanted to drop two atomic bombs on China. Truman disagreed and fired him |
| The Cuban Missile Crisis | was a 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other side |
| John F. Kennedy | was president of the U.S and he announced on television the photograph of the Soviet missiles in Cuba |
| 2 inventions made by Nasa | diapers and tang |
| Neil Armstrong | In 1969 was one of the first me to walk on the moon |
| Edwin "Buzz Aldrin | In 1969 was one of the first men to walk on the moon |
| Stalemate | Tie |
| President Dwight D. Eishehower | promised to end the Korean war yet still resist the spread of Communism |
| Fidel Castro | overthrew the dictatorship of Cuban Leader Fulgencio Batista |
| Jomo Kenyatta | wanted freedom from the British just like Kwame Nkrumah |
| President Richard M. Nixon | withdrew the Andrew forces from the Vietnam War |
| President Lyndon Johnson | increased the number of troops in the Vietnam War |
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