Cold War
Published on Nov 19, 2015
Bryce Roselli
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Cold War
Bryce Roselli
McCarthyism
the practice of making unfair allegations or using unfair investigative techniques
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Cuban missile crisis
- a 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other side
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NATO
an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty
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Nuclear proliferation
- the spread of nuclear weapons, fissionable material, and weapons-applicable nuclear
- technology and information to nations not recognized as nuclear weapon st
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Perestroika
allowed more independent actions from various ministries and introduced some market-like reforms.
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ping pong diplomacy
the exchange of table tennis players between the United States and in the early 1970s. The event marked a thaw in U.S.–China relations
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Prague Spring
a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union after World War II
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SALT I
froze the number of strategic ballistic missile launchers at existing levels
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SAlt ii
a series of talks between United States and Soviet negotiators which sought to the manufacture of strategic nuclear weapons
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SATELLITE country
a country that is formally independent in the world, but under heavy political, economic and military influence or control of another country
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treaty of rome
an agreement by which Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes agreed that Fiume would be annexed to Italy
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United nations
an intergovernmental organization established to promote international co-operation
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yalta conference
a conference to to establish an agenda for governing post-war Europe
