COLD WAR

SUPERPOWER

• An extremely powerful nation

UNITED NATIONS

• An organization founded in 1945 to promote peace

IRON CURTAIN

• An imaginary line that divided Eastern and Western Europe

CONTAINMENT

• The u.s. Policy of attempting to stop the spread of communism

MARSHALL PLAN

• A U.S. Plan designed to promote economic recovery in Europe

NATO

• A defense pact formed by western nations in 1949

WARSAW PACT

• A defense pact between USSR and Eastern Europe nations in 1955

ARMS RACE

• A competition to see who had better weapons

CULTURAL REVOLUTION

• A period of revolution and political persecution in china from 1966-1976

KOREA WAR

• A war from 1950-1953 between North Korea and South Korea

VIET CONG

• A communist insurgents in south vietnam

VIETNAM WAR

• A war between north and south vietnam from 1950-1975

DOMION THEORY

• A theory that if vietnam fell to the communist the rest of asia will to

CONCERT ACTION

• A secret operation by the Central Intelligence Agency,or CIA

DETENTE

• The easing of the Cold War tension between the east and west in 1970

DETERRENCE

• The police of building a weapon so deadly that no nation will attack