COLD WAR

SUPERPOWER

• a very powerful and influential nation

UNITED NATIONS

• intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation.

IRON CURTAIN

• A barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and west prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in Eastern Europe in 1989.

CONTAINMENT

• The action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits

MARSHALL PLAN

• Was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, which they gave Europe economic support.

NATO

• North Atlantic treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance

WARSAW PACT

• Collective defense treaty among eight communist states of central and Eastern Europe

ARMS RACE

• In its original usage, is a competition between two or more parties to have the best armed forces.

CULTURAL REVOLUTION

• A chaotic mass movement in the people's Republic of China.

KOREA WAR

• The Korean war was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United nations led by the United States fought for the south and China for the north.

VIET CONG

• A member of the communist guerilla movement in Vietnam that fought the south Vietnamese.

VIETNAM WAR

• A cold war era that occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia from November 1 1955 to April 30 197, was fought for anti communism and communism in north and south Vietnam.

DOMINO THEORY

• A theory prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s that speculated that if one country would fall to communism they will all fall little by little.

COVERT ACTION

• One of many foreign policy tools used by policymakers to advance on national interests.

DETENTE

• The easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries.

DETERRENCE

• The act or process of deterring.