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cold war vocab
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Superpower (2 nations) | US & Soviet Union; the nations that have dominating resources and military force |
| Cold War | A period of tension and hostility between the US and Soviet Union |
| Truman Doctrine | The US' policy to keep Soviet communism contained - preventing the spread of it |
| Containment | The US strategy of limiting communism |
| Marshall Plan | The U.S.' aid to Europe with supplies and resources |
| NATO | Military alliance between several nations, including the US |
| Warsaw Pact | The Soviet Union's alliance with nations in response to NATO |
| Detente | An agreement to reduce tensions/relaxation |
| Fidel Castro | Lawyer, led a rebellion against Cuba's dictator |
| John F. Kennedy | US President who helped anti-Castro exiles |
| Ideology | A system of values and beliefs |
| Nikita Khrushnev | Soviet Union dictator after Stalin's death |
| Leonid Brezhnev | Khrushnev's succesor; kept the Communist party in Soviet Union alive |
| Berlin Wall | Concrete barrier that divided West and East Berlin |
| Iron Curtain | The term that showed the division between democratic and communist Germany/Europe |
| Disarmament | The act of reducing weapons/military force |
| Dissidents | People who openly criticize the government |
| Free market | A market that functions of naturality of supply and demand |
| Interdependence | A mutual reliance of nations for resources and goods |
| Suburbs | Urban areas that the Americans moved to from the cities |
| Welfare state | A country that handles the market, but with a government that manages people's needs |
| GDP | Gross domestic product; the overall value of the production of goods within a certain time |
| Viet Cong | Communist rebels who wanted to get rid of South Viet. government. They got support from the NORTH |
| Domino Theory | The theory that if one nations falls to communism, so will all the rest |
| Perestroika | Gorbachev's policy for change in market and democracy |
| Glasnost | Gorbachev's policy to try to get people to openly express their concerns/problens |