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cold war
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| cold war | time of hostility between the superpowers USA andUSSR from 1940s to 1990s. No fighting ever broke out |
| Communism | political ideology that the government should control industry and agriculture. Usually associated with Russia |
| Capitalism | political ideology that allowed and promoted private ownership of business and industry |
| dictatorship | one party or leader in control of a country. They make all the decisions |
| democracy | government of the people, by the people for the people. Free Elections decide who will run the country |
| Satellite states | these were countries taken over by Stalin in which communist controlled governments were in place. They formed a protective zone between Russia and the west |
| iron curtain | the comes from a famous speech by Churchill describing the division between East and West that had formed after WW2 |
| truman doctrine | U.S.A policy of giving financial aid to countries after WW2 in the hope that it would stop these countries turning to communism |
| marshall plan | U.S.A policy of helping European countries recover economically after WW2 to prevent spread of communism |
| zones of occupation | After WW2 Germany and Berlin was divided into 4 zones of occupation between the victorious allied countries |
| deutschmark | the new currency the Western allies wanted to bring in to Germany in 1948 to help economic recovery post war |
| Berlin blockade | when the Soviet Union cut of all road, rail and canal links and power supplies to West Berlin in June 1948 |
| Berlin airlift | the Western allies response to the Berlin blockade was to airlift supplies in cargo planes bringing them into the west |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organisation- western countries pledged to help each other if attacked. Organisation set up after Blockade |
| Warsaw pact | Soviet countries formed a military alliance after the Berlin blockade |
| Berlin Wall | a wall erected by the Soviet government dividing East and West Berlin to stop East Berliners moving to the West for better jobs |
| Nikita Khruschev | Leader of Soviet Union after Stalin |
| John F Kennedy | President of USA during Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Fidel Castro | leader of Communist Cuba |
| Bay of Pigs invasion | Kennedy armed invasion of Communist Cuba who were getting assistance from Khrushchev in Russia |
| Cuban missile crisis | U2 spy planes discovered Soviet missile bases were secretly being built in Cuba within range of America |
| Glasnost | policy of openness developed by Gorbachev when he became leader of Russia- end to censorship and more open discussion |
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