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Chapter 39 Cold War
Cold War Key Content Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Berlin Blockade | the Soviet blockade of the German city of Berlin, implemented from 1948 to 1949 to halt land travel into the city in hopes of forcing the United States, Great Britain, and France to give up their plan to combine their occupation zones into a single, democ |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization | as part of the Cold War, a military alliance formed in 1949 among the United States, Canada, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, Iceland, Italy, Britain, Denmark, Norway, and Portugal—and expanded to include Greece and Turkey in 1952 and West Ge |
| Warsaw Pact | as part of the Cold War and in response to the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, an agreement signed in 1955 by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania to establish a military alli |
| Korean War | a war fought on the Korean Peninsula from 1950 to 1953 after troops from communist North Korea, armed with Soviet weapons, invaded democratic South Korea, prompting the United States and the United Nations to send forces to support South Korea and fight t |
| Third World | originally, the group of nations that had recently gained independence from colonial rule and were not aligned with the West (First World) or the East (Second World) after World War II; more broadly, the developing nations of the world |
| Mutual Assured Destruction | during the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union, the principle that either side would respond to a nuclear attack by launching its own missiles, which helped prevent the Cold War from becoming a hot war |
| Coup d’état | the sudden overthrow of a government by violent force |
| Satellite Nation | a country under another country's control |
| Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) | an area, often along the border between two military powers, that no military forces are allowed to enter |
| Brinkmanship | a foreign policy characterized by a willingness to push a dangerous situation to the brink, or edge, of war rather than give in to an opponent |
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