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Unit 7 World History
Term | Definition |
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1. Brinkmanship | causing or allowing a situation to become extremely dangerous in order to get the results that you want |
2. Containment | United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism especially by the Soviet Union |
3. commune | in Communist China, a collectivefarm on which a great number of people (pesants) work and live together |
4. Cultural Revolution | 1966–1976 uprising in China led by the Red Guards, with the goal of establishing a society of peasants and workers in which all were equal. |
5. Détente | (French) an ending of unfriendly or hostile relations between countries |
6. Domino Theory | The idea that if one key nation in a region fell to control of communists, others would follow like toppling dominoes. |
7. Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM) | missiles equipped with nuclear warheads. |
8. Iron curtain | name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. |
9. Khmer Rouge | Communists rebels that took over Cambodia in 1975 and set up a brutal government under the leadership of Pol Pot. |
10. Marshall Plan | (1948-1952) offered free financial aid to any European nation rebuilding after WWII |
11. nonaligned nations | the independent countries that remained neutral in the Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. |
12. NATO: (NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY) | organization that was a defensive military alliance between the U.S., Canada, and 10 other European nations |
13. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty | (1968) focus to limit nuclear weapons |
14. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT): | 1972 treaty was signed limiting nuclear arsenals |
15. Solidarity | an independent trade union movement in Poland that developed into a mass campaign for political change and inspired popular opposition to communist regimes across eastern Europe during the 1980s. |
16. Third World | during the Cold War, the developing nations not allied with either the United States or the Soviet Union. |
17. 38th Parallel | the line of latitude 38 degrees North (38° N), in East Asia, which roughly marks the border between North Korea and South Korea: set by the U.S. in 1945 as a military boundary |
18. Truman Doctrine | (1947) offered aid to countries fighting outside “pressures” |
19. United Nations: | Created by Winston Churchill and FDR toward the end of WWII. Replaced the League of Nations and had more power |
20. Vietcong | Communist guerrilla force that fought with the support of the North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam in the Vietnam War |
21. Vietnamization | President Nixon's plan to gradually recall U.S troops while allowing South Vietnamese troops to take over |
22. Warsaw Pact | defensive military pact between the U.S.S.R. & 7 European nations |