| A | B |
|---|
| Cold War | rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States as the two powers competed for influence around the world |
| satellite nation | a nation that is dominated politically and economically by a more powerful nation |
| containment | Cold War policy to keep soviet influence contained within existing boundaries |
| Truman Doctrine | program of helping nations threatened by communist expansion |
| George Marshall | Secretary of State who feared that hungry homeless Europeans might support the communist revolution |
| Marshall Plan | a large scale plan to help Europe rebuild its economy |
| Berlin airlift | airlift that provided food, fuel, and supplies to West Berliners |
| Berlin Wall | wall sealed off East Berlin from West Berlin |
| Chiang Kai-shek | ruler of China |
| Mao Zedong | led communist forces to overthrow Chiang and China became communist |
| United Nations | international peacekeeping organization |
| North Atlantice Treaty Organization NATO | U.S. joined other Western European nations to help defend against communism |
| Warsaw Pact | Soviet Union formed its own military alliance |
| Joseph McCarthy | senator who created a red scare by accusing many people of being communists |
| censure | officially condemn |
| Nikita Khrushcehv | Soviet leader who claimed that the Soviet Union was making new rockets |
| Sputnik | world's first artificial satellite |
| Natioanl Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA | goal was to establish an American space program to compete with the Soviet's |
| superpowers | nations with enough military, political, and economic strenght to influence events in many areas around the globe |
| Fidel Castro | led a revolution that set up a socialist state in Cuba |
| exiles | people who have been forced to leave their own countries |
| John F. Kennedy | President of the U.S 1961 |
| Bay of Pigs | 1200 cuban exiles landed hoping other Cubans who opposed Castro would join them |
| Cuban Missle Crisis | Soviet Union was building missile bases on Cuba, Kennedy announced american warships would tun back Soviet ships carrying missiles |
| Alliance for Progress | tried to help the people of Latin america build schools and hospitals improve farming and economic and social reform |
| Peace Corps | American volunteers ent to Latin America or other developing areas to teach or give technical advice |
| Organization of American States | OAS encouraged economic progress in Latin America by inveting in transportation and industry |
| Ronald Regan | president of the US who provided aid to friendly forces in Nicargaua and El Salvador |
| Iran-Contra Deal | Some of Regan's staff provided military aid secrelty and financed their program by illegal weapon sales to Iran |
| Ho Chi Minh | Vietnamese communist who led a war for independence |
| Vietcong | guerrillas who opposed Diem in south Vietnam |
| guerrillas | fighters who use hit and run attacks |
| domino theory | countries would fall like a row of dominoes to communism |
| Lyndon Johnson | became President after Kennedy was assinated |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resoluton | allowed the President to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack or to prevent further aggression |
| escalate | expand |
| Hawks | supported the Vietnam War |
| Doves | opposed the Vietnam War |
| Tet Offensive | Vietcong guerrillas launced surprise attacks on cities in South Vietnam |
| Richard Nixon | became president in 1968 and ended the war |
| Khmer Rouge | civil war in Cambodia |
| detente | reduce tensions between superpowers |
| SALT Agreement | a treaty that limited the number of nuclear warheads and missiles |
| Gerald Ford | President of US from 1974-77 |
| Jimmy Carter | President of US from 1977-81 |
| Star Wars | defense system that could shoot down missiles from space |
| Solidarity | a Polish independent labor union |
| martial law | emergency military rule |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | leader of the Soviet Union 1985 |
| glasnost | policy of speaking out honestly and openly |
| summit meeting | conference between the hightest ranking officials of different nations |
| Intermediate Nuclear Force (INF) Treaty | US and Soviet Union agreed to get rid of short range and medium range missiles |
| free market | individuals decide what to produce and sell |
