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United nations |
International peace keeping organization founded in 1945 |
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Iron curtain |
The boundary separating the communist nations of eastern Europe from the mostly democratic western Europe |
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Containment |
To stop the spread of communism by creating alliance and helping weak countries to resist soviet advances |
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Truman doctrine |
Support for countries that rejected communism |
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Marshall plan |
U.s give aid to needy European countries |
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Cold war |
Struggle over political d inferences carried on by means of short military action or war. |
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NATO |
North Atlantic treaty organization. European nations joining with them united states and canada |
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Warsaw pact |
An alliance formed by the soviet union |
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Brinkmanship |
The willingness to go to the brink or edge of war |
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Commune |
Larger collective farms |
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Cultural revolution |
A major uprising who's goal was to establish a society of peasants and workers who were equal |
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Domino theory |
The fall of one country to communism would lead to the fall of its neighbors. |
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Nonaligned nations |
Nations able to maintain nuetrality |
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Dé ente |
A policy of lessening cold war tensions |
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Politburo |
The ruling committee of communist party in soviet union |
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Glasnost |
Soviet policy of openness to the free flow of ideas and information |
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Perestroika |
Reconstructing of the soviet economy to permit more local decision making. |
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Solidarity |
Polish labor union that during the 1980's became the main force of opposition |
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Ethnic Cleansing |
Policy of murder and other acts of brutality by which Serbs hoped to eliminate Bosnia's Muslim population after the breakup of Yugoslavia |
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Four Modernization |
A set of goals adopted by Chinese leader Deny Xiaoping in the late 20th century involving progress in agriculture, industry, defense, and science and technology |
