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Vocabulary Ch.16
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A failed U.S.-backed invasion of Cuba by anti-Castro exiles in 1961. | Bay of Pigs invasion |
| A chieftain (that is, a local or regional strongman) in Latin America | Caudillo |
| United States agency for information gathering; sometimes this organization,among other activities, sought to overthrow or destabilize countries deemedtoo receptive to communism. | Central Intelligence Agency |
| One side of the 1980s civil war in Nicaragua, it was composed in large part of people loyal to the former dictator Somoza; they fought against the Sandinistas. | Contras |
| the relaxation of tension between the Soviet Union and the United States that occurred in the 1970s. | Detente |
| An organization begun after World War II, it fostered economic cooperation among member states, eventually becoming today´s European Union. | European Economic Community |
| The Russian term for "openness"; along with perestroika, it was employed to describe the reforms instituted by Gorbachev in the late 1980s in the Soviet Union. | Glasnost |
| Organized in 1885, this secular organization promoted Indian nationalism and lobbied for increased right of Indians; it became a major force in the struggle for Indian independence. | Indian National Congress |
| Negotiated by Mikhail Gorbachev and the Reagan administration in the mid-1980's, ir removed all medium-range nucear missiles from Europe. | INF (Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty) |
| the NOrth Atlantic Treaty Organization' a military alliance fomred in 1949 i which the signatories ( Belguim, Canada, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the United States) agreed to provide m | NATO |
| A large group of countries, most of which became independent after World War ll, who desired cold War alliances with niether the United States nor the Soviet Union. | Nonaligned nations |
| The Russian term for "restructuring," which, with glasnost, was used to describe the reforms instituted by Gorbachev in the late 1980s. | Perestroika |
| Two agreements between the United States and the Soviet Union that placed caps on cerain types of nuclear weapons. | SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty) |
| A left-wing revolutionary group that overthrew the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua and became the target of the Reagan administration during the 1980s. | Sandinistas |
| Strategic Defense Initiative, also known as "star wars." A plan put forth by the Reagan administration to build a space-bases missile defense system. | SDI |
| The umbrella organization founded by Lech Walesa and other anticommunist Poles in 1981 to recovder Polish freedom; banned for eight years, but continued underground unitl it was acknowledges as the government in 1989. | Solidarity |
| The armed suppression of thousands of Chinese students who were peacefully demonstrating for reforms by the Communist leaders; occurred in 1989 in Beijing, China | Tiananmen Square, massacre on |
| Led by Ho Chi Minh, it fought both France and the United States | Viet Cong (Vietnamese Communists) |
| Ho Chi Minh's North Vietnamese troops | Viet Minh |
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