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Cold War Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Apartheid | South African policy of racial segregation and discrimination |
| Authoritarianism | A government characterized by strong central power and limited political freedoms. |
| Cold War | State of political hostility between Soviet bloc countries and US-led Western countries 1945-1990 |
| Collectivization | forced consolidation of farms called carried out by the Soviets 1920s-1930s. |
| Communism | All property is public and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs |
| Containment | US doctrine adopted in 1947 to contain the spread of communism |
| Decolonization | Asian and African independence from European control 1945-1960 |
| Genocide | Systematic extermination of group of people based on race, religion, or status |
| Glasnost | Soviet policy of "openness" initiated by Gorbachev in 1985. |
| Indian National Congress | Political party that advocated the idea of Indian nationalism |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization designed in the wake of WWII |
| Perestroika | Soviet policy of economic restructuring initiated by Gorbachev in 1985 |
| Propoganda | Information used to promoted a particular political cause of point of view |
| Proxy wars | A war instigated by a major power which does not itself become involved. |
| Third World | Cold War term referred to the developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America |
| United Nations | An intergovernmental organization aimed at maintaining international peace and security |
| Warsaw Pact | A collective defense treaty among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states. |
| Harry Truman | US president at the end of WWII; began the Cold War policy of containment against communism |
| Dwight Eisenhower | US president and WWII general; used military strength and alliances (like NATO) to contain communism |
| Joseph Stalin | Soviet dictator who led the USSR during WWII and expanded communism in Eastern Europe |
| Nikita Khrushchev | Soviet leader during the Cold War who de-Stalinized the USSR and led during the Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Last Soviet leader who introduced reforms (glasnost and perestroika) that led to the end of the Cold War |
| Berlin Wall | Barrier built in 1961 dividing East and West Berlin; symbol of Cold War division between communism and democracy |
| Fidel Castro | Communist leader of Cuba who took power in 1959 and allied with the Soviet Union |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | 1962 standoff between the US and USSR over Soviet missiles in Cuba; brought the world close to nuclear war |
| Gandhi (Mohandas Gandhi) | Indian leader who used nonviolent resistance to achieve independence from Britain |
| Nelson Mandela | South African leader who fought against apartheid and became the country's first black president. |
| Ho Chi Minh | Communist leader of North Vietnam that led the |
| Vietnam War | Cold War conflict (1955-1975) between communist North Vietnam and non=communist South Vietnam, with heavy US involvement to stop the spread of communism. |
| Ho Chi Minh | Communist leader of North Vietnam who fought for independence from France and later against the United States. |
| John F. Kennedy | US president who increased American involvement in Vietnam, advocated for a space race with USSR, and was assassinated in 1963. |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | US president who greatly escalated the Vietnam War and advocated for The Great Society |
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