Key Terms Flashcards
(24 cards)
Brinkmanship
Policy of pushing dangerous situations to the verge of war. Example, Cold War
Detente
Easing of Cold War tensions between US and USSR
Deterrence
Preventing enemy attacks by threatening massive even nuclear arms related, retaliation
Alignment
Supporting either te US or USSR
Containment
US policy to stop the spread of communism
Expansionism
Policy of increasing a countries influence of territory, often aggressively
Marshall Plan
US aid to rebuild western europe and stop the spread of communism
38th Parallel
Line dividing North and South Korea before and after the korean war
korean War
1950 conflict between communist North korea and democratic South korea
United Nations
An intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international peace and security
Satellite nation
Country dominated politicly and economically by the soviet union
Cominform
Soviet organization to coordinate communist parties across europe
Iron Curtain
Symbolic divide between communism east europe and democratic west europe
Truman Doctrine
US support to nations resisting communism especially greece and turkey
Berlin Airlift
Allied planes delivered supplies to blockaded west berlikn
NATO
Military alliance of western nations to defend against soviet aggression
Warsaw Pact
Soviet-led military alliance countering NATO
U-2 incident
US upy plane shot down over soviet union
Collecdtivization
Government policy combining individual farms into large state controlled ones
Great Leap Forward
Maos failed plan to rapidly industrialize china and boost agriculture
Tet Offensive
massive 1968 surprise attack by North Vietnam during vietnamese New Year
Khmer Rouge
Communist group that ruled cambodia and committed genocide under Pol Pot
Perestroika
Gorbachev’s policy to restructure the soviet economy with limited reforms
Glasnost
Gorbachev’s policy encouraging openness, free speech, and transparency in the USSR
