| A | B |
|---|
| Truman Doctrine | US policy designed to contain communism in Turkey & Greece |
| Cultural Revolution | 1966 to 1976 in China when intellectuals & landlords were persecuted; chaos in society |
| commune | gov't run farms in China; also known as cooperatives |
| Marshall Plan | US gov't plan to rebuild Europe after WWII & to contain communism |
| Mao Zedong | leader of the Communist Party in China |
| Berlin Wall | was once an important symbol of the Cold War that divided a German City |
| containment | policy to hold back the spread of communism |
| Taiwan | place where the leader of Nationalist Party fled to from China to set up new gov't |
| Chiang Kai-shek | Chinese leader of the Nationalist Party after Sun Yat-sen's death |
| occupation zone | area where troops were kept in a country |
| Warsaw Pact | a military alliance after WWII made up of communist countries; a reaction to NATO |
| North Atlantic Treaty Org. (NATO) | a military alliance made up of the US, Canada & 10 W. European countries |
| Cold War | a conflict between the US & Soviet Union to gain influence in the world |
| concessions | places in China that were ruled by foreign countries |
| domino effect | the idea that if one country falls to communism then another one can, and another, and eventually another |
| arms race | competition to have the best, most powerful weapons in the world |
| iron curtain | invisible political line that divided Europe's communist & non-communist countries |
