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COLD WAR
TERMS
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Communism | type of government owns and controls most everything; no private property |
| Arms race | competition between countries to achieve superiority in quantity and quality of military arms |
| Iron Curtain | imaginary border between Western Europe and the communist countries of Eastern Europe; made it very difficult to travel into or out of Eastern Europe. |
| Super Power | an extremely powerful nation in economics, military and influence |
| United Nations | international organization that works for peace, security and cooperation |
| Containment: American | policy that called for the US to RESIST Soviet attempts to form Communist governments ELSEWHERE |
| Marshall Plan | A program; U S gave large amounts of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after WWII |
| Truman Doctrine | pledge to give military and economic aid to any country threatened by Communism |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A military alliance of several countries. |
| Proxy war | a conflict between two nations where neither country directly engages the other |
| Stalemate | to bring to a standstill |
| Armistice | a suspension of hostilities by agreement of the warring parties; truce |
| Foreign Policy | a policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations, designed to achieve national objectives |
| market economy (free enterprise free economy, free market) | production, distribution, and exchange is controlled by individuals and privately owned corporations rather than by the government |
| command economy | production and distribution of goods and services are controlled by the government and industry is mostly publicly owned; communist and socialist tendencies |
| capitalism | an economic system with a free market and private control |
| guerilla warfare | sudden unexpected attacks carried out by an unofficial military group or groups that are trying to change the government by assaults on the armed forces |
| quarantine | political and economic isolation of a nation in retribution for unacceptable policies |
| blockade | the isolating, closing off, or surrounding of a place, as a port, harbor or city, by hostile ships or troops to prevent entrance or exit |
| Vietnam War | a "proxy" war in the Cold War between superpowers November 1, 1955 – April 30, 1975 |
| Viet Cong | The Viet Cong were Vietnamese rebels in the South who fought against the Southern Vietnam government and the United States |
| Mandate of Heaven: | a political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source |
| Khmer Rouge | a Cambodian guerrilla and rebel force and political opposition movement, originally Communist and Communist-backed |
| Demilitarized Zone | an area in which it is forbidden to station military forces or maintain military installations |
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