COLD WAR

Superpower
When the world is divided and the nation is powerful and strong.

United Nations
An organization found in 1945 to get peace ,security,and cooperation among nations.

Iron curtain
A barrier that divided Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War.

Containment
A U.S policy of keep control of Soviet power ,preventing spread of communism.

Marshall plan
U.S planned to design and promote the economic,after World War Two.

NATO
A defense pact ,was formed by the western Nations in 1949.

Warsaw Pact
A defense pact between the USSR and Eastern European Nations in 1955.

Arms Race
A competition to get weapons superiority.

Cultural Revolution
Political persecution in China,and a period of hard times and changes in 1966-1976.

Korea War
A war from 1950-1953 between communist North Korea and non communist South Korea.

View Cong
Communist rebels people in south Vietnam.

Vietnam War
:War between north and south Vietnam from
1950-1975

Domino Theory
:Belief that if Vietnam fell to the communist , rest of Asia fall like dominos did.

Covert Action
:A Political ,Economic or Military operation sponsored by the government ,and designed to support a foreign policy.

Détente
:to make it less painful to the Cold War between the east and the west.

Deterrence
:To built weapons ,so no other nation dare to attack.

HOW DID THE COLD WAR CHANGE THE WORLD?

• After the Cold War was done the nation decided to have Nuclear weapons and more advanced technology. It also allow us Now in present day to do what we do with all type of technology. Time by time the place we live in improves from agriculture to technology and economy.