POST WAR/CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

COLD WAR

• A state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda,and other measures short of open warfare in particular.

CONTAINMENT

• Containment is a geopolitical strategy to stop the expansion of an enemy. It is best known as a Cold War foreign policy of the United States and its allies to prevent the spread of communism

COMMUNISM

• a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

• a country's military establishment and those industries producing arms or other military materials, regarded as a powerful vested interest.

ARMS RACE

• a competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons, especially between the US and the former Soviet Union during the Cold War.

DOCTRINE

• a stated principle of government policy, mainly in foreign or military affairs.

UNITED NATIONS

• The United Nations is an international organization formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among its member countries.

SECURITY COUNCIL

• An important division of the United Nations that contains five permanent members — the United States, Britain, China, France, and Russia — and ten rotating members. It is often called into session to respond quickly to international crises.

KOREAN WAR

• Korean War. A war, also called the Korean conflict, fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea

FIDEL CASTRO

• Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008.

JOHN F. KENNEDY

• John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.

DETENTE

• Détente is the easing of strained relations, especially in a political situation. The term originates in the time of the Triple Entente and Entente cordiale in reference to an easing of tensions between

IRON CURTAIN

• the notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989.

BRINKSMANSHIP

• the art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, typically in politics.

UN POLICE ACTION

• In military/security studies and international relations, "police action" is a euphemism for a military action undertaken without a formal declaration of war. Since World War II, formal declarations of war have been rare, especially actions conducted by developed nations in connection with the Cold War.

BLACKLIST

• a list of people or products viewed with suspicion or disapproval.

DIPLOMACY

• the profession, activity, or skill of managing international relations, typically by a country's representatives abroad.

ROSENBERG CASES

• A court case involving Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, an American couple who were executed in 1953 as spies for the Soviet Union.

NATO

• NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is a military alliance of European and North American democracies founded after World War II to strengthen international ties between member states—especially the United States and Europe—and to serve as a counter-balance to the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact.

SEATS

• The seat of government is (as defined by Brewer's Politics) "the building, complex of buildings or the city from which a government exercises its authority". The national government is usually located in the capital.

CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS

• The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.

EISENHOWER DOCTRINE

• The Eisenhower Doctrine was a policy enunciated by Dwight D. Eisenhower on January 5, 1957, within a "Special Message to the Congress on the Situation in the Middle East".

COUNTER CULTURE

• a way of life and set of attitudes opposed to or at variance with the prevailing social norm.

CIVIL RIGHTS

• The civil rights movement in the United States was a decades-long movement with the goal of enforcing constitutional and legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already enjoyed.

NON-VIOLENT PROTEST

• Nonviolent resistance is the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, satyagraha, or other methods, while being nonviolent.

BOYCOTT

• withdraw from commercial or social relations with (a country, organization, or person) as a punishment or protest.

DEJURE SEGREGATION

• De jure segregation refers to the legal separation of groups of people based on the law.

SIT INS

• a form of protest in which demonstrators occupy a place, refusing to leave until their demands are met.

DE SEGREGATION

• the ending of a policy of racial segregation.