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| United Nations | an international peacekeeping organization founded in 1945 to provide security to the nations of the world. |
| Iron Curtain | during the Cold War, the boundary seperating the Communist nations of Eastern Europe from the mostly democratic nations of Western Europe. |
| Containment | a U.S. 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 helping weak countries to resist Soviet advances. |
| Truman Doctrine | announced by President Harry Truman i n1947, a US policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents. |
| Marshall Plan | a US program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after World War II. |
| Cold War | the state of diplomatic hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union in the decades follwing Woorld War II. |
| Nato | the North Altalntic Treaty Organization - a defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European nations, the United States, and Canada. |
| Warsaw Pact | a military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and seven Eastern European countries. |
| Brinkmanship | a policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy agression. |
| Mao Zedong | The communist leader of China |
| Jiang Jieshi | Leader of the Nationalist party. |
| Commune | in Communist China, a collective farm on which a great number of work and live together. |
| Red Guards | militia units formed by yound Chinese people in 1966 in reponse to Mao Zedong's call for a social and cultural revolution. |
| 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. |
| 38th parallel | line that crosses Korea at 38 degrees north latitude |
| Douglas MacArthur | American General |
| Ho Chi Minh | A young Vietnamese nationalist |
| Domino Theory | the idea that if a nation falls under communist control, nearby nations will also fall under Communist control. |
| Ngo Dinh Diem | Anti communist government leader of Vietnam |
| Vietcong | a group of Communist buerrillas who, with the help of North Vietnam, fought against the South Vietnamese government in the Vietnam War. |
| Vietnamization | President Richard Nixon's strategy for ending US involvement in the Vietnam War, involving a gradual withdrawal of American troops and replacement of them with South Vietnamese forces. |
| Khmer Rouge | Communist rebels |
| Third World | during the Cold War, the developing nations not allied with either the United States or the Soviet Union. |
| Nonaligned nations | the independent countries that remained neutral in the Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. |
| Fidel Castro | A young lawyer and dictator of Cuba |
| Anastasio Somoza | Nicaraguan Dictactor |
| Daniel Ortega | Leader of Sandinistas |
| Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini | Leader of a religious opposition. |
| Nikita Krushcev | Afer the death of Stalin he became the dominant Soviet leader |
| Leonid Brezhnev | became president after the removal of Khruschev |
| John F. Kennedy | president of the Uinted states who was assassinated |
| Lyndon Johnson | Vice President of the United states of America then became president after the death of Kennedy |
| Detente | a policy of reducing Cold War tensions that was adopted by United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon. |
| Richard M. Nixon | President of the United Sates |
| SALT | the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks - a series of meetings in the 1970s, in which leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to limit their nations' stocks of nuclear weapons. |
| Ronald Reagan | A fiercely anti-Communist President of the United States |
