"the Cold War"

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Detente

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A policy of reducing cold war tensions that was adopted by the US during presidency of Richard Nixon.

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Salt I Treaty

Back 2

A series of meetings in the 1970s, in which leaders of the US and he Soviet Union agreed to limit thier nations stocks or neucular weapons.

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Truman Doctrine

Back 3

A US policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threatend by internal and external opponets

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Policy of Contianment

Back 4

A US foreign policy adopted by Harry Truman in the late 1940s, in which the US tried to stop communism.

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"Star Wars"

Back 5

A program to protect US agaisnt attack by enemy missles.

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Destalinization

Back 6

Niklta Knushchevs policy of eliminating all memory of Joesph Stalin and his programs in the Soviet Union.

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Third World Nation

Back 7

During the Cold War, the developing nations not allied with either the US or the Soveit Union.

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Iron Curtian

Back 8

During the Cold War, the boundary seperating the communist nations from Democratic nations.

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Cultural Revolution

Back 9

Uprising in China, led by red guard, with the goal of estabilshing a society of peasents and workers.

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United Nations

Back 10

An international peacekeeping orgainization founded in 1945 to provide security to the nations of the world.

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NATO

Back 11

The North Atlantic Organization-defensive military alliances formed in 1949 by ten western european nations.

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Warsaw Pact

Back 12

A military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and seven eastern European countries.

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Marshall Plan

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A US program of economic aid to european countries to help them rebuld after WWII.

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Brinkmanship

Back 14

A policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy agression.

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Communes

Back 15

Communist China, a collective farm on which a great number of people work and live together.