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Iron curtain |
During the Cold War the boundary separating the communist nations of Eastern Europe from the mostly democratic nations of western Europe |
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Containment |
US foreign policy adopted by President Harry Truman in the late 1940s in which the United States tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and hoping we countries to resist Soviet advances |
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Truman doctrine |
Announced by President Harry Truman in 1947 US policy giving economic and military aid to free nations treated by internal or Extertal opponents |
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Marshall plan |
Oh US program of economic. Aid to European countries to help them rebuild after World War II |
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NATO |
The north Atlantic Treaty organization a defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by 10 Western European nations the United States and Canada |
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Warsaw Pact |
Military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet union and seven Eastern Europe countries |
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Brinkmanship |
A policy of treating to go to war in response to any enemy aggression |
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Nonaligned nations |
The independent countries that remained neutral in the cold war competition between the United States and the Soviet Union |
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Détente |
A policy of reducing Cold War tensions that was adopted by the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon |
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Glasnost |
Soviet policy of openness to the free flow of ideas and information introduced the 1985 by Mikhail Gorbachev |
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Perestroika |
A restructuring of the soviet economy to permit more local decisions and making begun bye Mikhail Gorbachev |
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Ethnical cleansing |
A policy of murder and others acts of brutally by which Serbs hope to eliminate Bosnia's muslim population after the break up of Yugoslavia |
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Four modernizations |
A set of goals adopted by the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping The late 20th century involving progress in agriculture, industry, defense and science and technology |
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Intifada |
Pale stinian campaign of civil disobedience against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip which continued in the 1990s |
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Camp David Accord's |
The first signed agreement between Israel and in Arab Country in which Egyptian president Anwar Sadat recognized Israel as a legitimate state and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin agreed to return the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt |
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Oslo peace accords |
I'm in agreement in 1993 in which Israeli prime Minister Rabin granted Palestinian self rule in Gaza Strip and the west bank |
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Mujahideen |
In Afghanistan Holy war years who banded to gather to fight the Soviet supported government in the late 1970s |
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Taliban |
Conservative Islam a group that took control of Afghanistan after the Soviet union withdrew it's troop; driven from powered by the US forces in December 2001 because of its harboring of suspected terrorists |
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Terrorism |
The use of the force or treats to frighten people or governments to change their policies |
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Cyber terrorism |
Politically motivated attacks on information systems |
