THE COLD WAR

SUPERPOWER

• This is a extremely powerful nation, one of the very few dominant states in an era when the world is divided politically.

UNITED NATIONS

• This is a international organization that was created to promote peace, security, and cooperation among the worlds nations. It was also found in 1945.

IRON CURTAIN

• This was a wall that separated Western and Eastern Berlin through out the Cold War.

Containment

• This was created by the U.S so that communism power would not influence or spread.

Marshall Plan

• This was invented to promote economic reset after World War 2 happened.

NATO

• This was created by the Western Nations for a mutual defense and was founded in 1949.

Warsaw PACT

• Was created in 1995, this was when Eastern Europe and USSR team up against other nations.

Arms Race

• This was mainly to see who had the most weapons during the war.

Cultural Revolution

• This was a revolution in China during 1966-1976 that was a political persecution.

Korean War

• This was a war that started in 1950 but ended in 1953. This was a war between South Korea who was non-communist and North Korea that was full communist. The U.S supported South Korea and USSR&China helped North Korea.

Viet Cong

• This was insurgents (communist people) that lived in South Vietnam

Vietnam War

• This war was from 1950's-1975 that was between South and North Vietnam.

Domino Theory

• This was a thought that if Vietnam fell then the other communist nations would fall as well like how you play with dominoes.

Covert Action

• This was like a top secret operation (military,economic or political) that was supported by the government. This was created to support foreign objectives.

DETente

• This is when all the tensions in the cold war between West and East stared to die down.

Deterrence

• This was a policy created so that no other nation would attack using built weapons.

Which Impacted the most?

• I think that the Vietnam war had the biggest effect during the cold war because it lasted more than twenty years which means that we lost a lot of lives and soldiers. More than half a million americans were serving in Vietnam. Also in the mix the U.S was supporting South Vietnam while the USSR and China were supporting North Vietnam which did create more tension between those nations. The U.S used the Domino Theroy as well when they said if they could fight North Vietnam and win the rest of the communist nations would fall as well. Even though the U.S had to start pulling troops out of vietnam by the 1970's it was a long war. When the U.S left South Vietnam, they lost to North Vietnam three years later.