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The Cold War
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10th Grade
04/24/2014

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United Nations
Definition
International organization intended to protect its membership from aggression
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Iron Curtain
Definition
Europe's division into mostly democratic West and Communist East
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Marshall Plan
Definition
U.S. policy to give aid in the form of food, machinery, other materials, to needy European countries after WW2
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Containment
Definition
Truman's foreign policy directed at blocking Soviet influence and stopping the expansion of Communism
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Truman Doctrine
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Truman's support for countries that rejected Communism.
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Cold War
Definition
The political and ideological struggle primarily between the U.S. and the S.U. carried on by means short of military action
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NATO
Definition
North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Ten western European nations, U.S., Canada, joined to form a defensive military alliance against Communism
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Warsaw Pact
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Military alliance of S.U., E. Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania
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Third World
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Those nations not 1st (Western) or 2nd (Communist bloc)
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Brinkmanship
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The willingness to go to the brink or edge of war.
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Berlin Airlift
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1948-49 American and British assistance to west Berlin because of Soviet blockade
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Detente
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Easing of hostilities between countries
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Glasnost
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"Openness;" Gorbachev's policy and practice of a more open and consultative government and wider dissemination of information
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Perestroika
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"Restructuring;" Gorbachev's policy of economic reconstruction in Russia
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