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The Cold War
Term | Definition |
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NATO | North American Treaty Organization |
Marshall Plan | provided aid to Western Europe |
Truman Doctrine | provided aid to Turkey and Greece |
Containment | Stop the spread of communism |
Satellites | Soviet puppet nations |
Iron Curtain | Imaginary line that separated the east from the west |
Cold War | A state of tension between the US and USSR |
Warsaw Pact | Soviet led allinance |
Surrogate Wars | Vietnam and Korea |
Fidel Castro | Cuban communist dictator |
Cuban Missile Crisis | US and USSR almost go to war over nukes in Cuba |
Nonaligned Nations | Neutrality |
Joseph Stalin | Soviet communist dictator |
John F. Kennedy | US President during the Cuban Missile Crisis |
Nikita Khrushchev | Soviet dictator during the Cuban Missile Crisis |
glasnost | Opening / allowing some freedom of speech in USSR by Gorbachev |
perestroika | restructuring in USSR by Gorbachev by allowing some aspects of Capitalism |
Vietnam War | US and USSR support opposing sides in this conflict that last from 1955-1975 |
Korean War | US and USSR support opposing sides in this conflict that last from 1950-1953 |
War in Afghanistan | Soviets fight the Taliban |