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| star wars | a program to protect the US against attack by enemy missiles, proposed in 1983 by Pres. Ronald Reagan but never implemented-formally known as the Strategic Defense Initiative |
| SALT | the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks-a series of meetings in the 1970s, in which leaders of the US and the Soviet Union agreed to limit their nations' stocks of nuclear weapons |
| detente | a policy of reducing Cold War tensions that was adopted by the US during the presidency of Richard Nixon |
| destalinization | Nikita Khruschev's policy of eliminating all memory of Joseph Stalin and his programs in the Soviet Union |
| nonaligned nations | the independent countries that remained neutral in the Cold War competition between the US and the Soviet Union |
| Third World | during the Cold War, the developing nations not allied with either the US or the Soviet Union |
| Khmer Rouge | a group of Communist rebels who seized power in Cambodia in 1975 |
| vietnamization | President RIchard Nixon's strategy for ending US involvement in the Vietnam War, involving a gradual withdrawl of American troops and replacement of them with South Vietnamese forces |
| Vietcong | a group of Communist guerrillas who, with the help of North Vietnam, fought against the South Vietnamese government in the Vietnam War |
| Domino Theory | the idea that if a naiton falls under Communist control, near by nations will also fall under Communist control |
| Cultural Revolution | a 1966-1976 uprising in China, led by the Red Guards, with the goal of establishing a society of peasants and workers in which all were equal |
| Red Guards | militia units formed by young Chinese people in 1966 in response to Mao Zedong's call for a social and cultural revolution |
| commune | a collective farm on whch a great number of people live and work together |
| U-2 incident | the shooting of a US spy plane and capture of its pilot by the Soviet Union in 1960 |
| Brinkmanship | a policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy aggression |
| Warsaw Pact | a military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and seven Eastern European countries |
| NATO | the North Atlantic Treaty Organization- a defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten western European Nations, the US and Canada |
| Cold War | the state of diplomatic hostility between the US and the Soviet Union in the decades following World War II |
| Marshall Plan | A US program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after WWII |
| Truman Doctrine | a US policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents, announced by President Truman in 1947 |
| containment | a US foreign policy adopted by Pres. Truman in the late 1940s, in which the US tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping weak countries to resist Soviet advances |
| iron curtain | during the COld War, the boundary separating the Communist nations of Eastern Europe from the mostly democratic nations of western Europe |
| United Nations | an international peace keeping organization founded in 1945 to provide security to the nations of the world |
| Ronald Reagan | pres of the US from 1981 to 1989 |
| Richard Nixon | pres of the US from 1969 to 1974 |
| Lyndon Johnson | pres of the US from 1963 to 1969 |
| Leonid Brezhnev | Soviet leader after Khrushchev |
| John F. Kennedy | pres. of the US from 1961 to 1963 |
| Nikita Khrushchev | leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin |
| Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini | Muslim leader who overthrew the Shah of Iran |
| Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | provisional west ruler of Iran |
| Daniel Ortega | leader of the COmmunist rebels in Nicaragua |
| Anastasio Somoza | Nicaraguan dictator |
| Fidel Castro | Communist leader of Cuba |
| Ngo Dinh Diem | leader of the anticommunist government of South Vietnam |
| Ho Chi Minh | Vietnamese nationalist who drove the French out of Vietnam and who led North Vietnam |
| Douglas MacArthur | leader of United Nations forces during the Korean War |
| 38th parallel | line that separated North and South Korea |
| Jiang Jieshi | Nationalist leader who set up a new government in Taiwan |
| Mao Zedong | Communist leader who defeated the Nationalists and the People's Republic of CHina |
