| A | B |
|---|
| NATO - North American Treaty Organization | the members all have democrativ governments |
| Warsaw PACT | Alliance formed by the Soviet Union, whose members included countries with communist governments |
| SEATO - Southeast Treaty Organization | It opposed communism and the Warsaw PACT |
| CENTO - Central Treaty Organization | group designed to stop communism in the Middle East |
| EEC - European Economic Community | group of nations that share a common currency today |
| space race | a competition between the United States and the Soviet Union for outer space supremacy (part of the Cold War conflict) |
| nuclear annihilation | the ability to completely destroy nations with explosions |
| Great Leap Foward | a five-year economic plan set up for China in the 1950s (similar to Stalin's five-year plans for the Soviet Union |
| commune | huge farms where people live and work together |
| cultural revolution | Mao Zedong's effort to rid China of Communist opposition (belief in strong communist control) |
| Red Guard | Chinese revolutionary groups made up mostly of young people |
| Four Modernizations | new policies for China in culture, defense, industry, and science and technology in the mid-1970s |
| domino theory | President Eisenhower's belief that if Vietnam fell to communism, then other countries would also fall to communism |
| Geneva Accords | an agreement that divided Vietnam at the 18th parallel into communist (North Vietnam) and non-communist (South Vietnam) governments |
| blockade | to close off an area |
