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Cold War Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Containment | Foreign policy followed by the United States during the Cold War |
Expansion | Foreign policy followed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War |
NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization - alliance |
Detente | Easing of relations during the Cold War |
Domino Theory | Suggested a communist government in one nation would quickly lead to communist takeovers in neighboring states, each falling like a perfectly aligned row of dominos. |
Cold War | A state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare |
Warsaw Pact | A collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union |
Superpowers | A state that cannot be ignored on the world stage and without whose cooperation no world problem can be solved. |