| A | B |
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| satellite state | a country that is politically and economically dependent on another ountry |
| policy of containment | a plan to keep a system like communism within its existing boundaries |
| NATO | military alliance of the West; an example of using balance of power politics |
| arms race | building up weapons to keep up with an enemy |
| Marshall Plan | economic aid to European countries to rebuild after WWII |
| deterrence | policy of being heavily armed to try to prevent war |
| commune | collective farms in China in the 1950s |
| permanent revolution | Mao's philosophy of keeping up an atmosphere of constant revolutionary fervor |
| Great Leap Forward | Mao's attempt to industrialize and build a socialist society |
| Cultural Revolution | radical plan by the Red Guards to remake Chinese society, to get rid of the Four Olds |
| proxy war | war in which two powerful countries use smaller countries to fight instead of fighting each other |
| domino theory | idea that if one county falls to communism, other countries in the region will fall |
| 38th parallel | border between North Korea and South Korea |
| 17th parallel | border between North Vietnam and South Vietnam |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | gave president Johnson a blank check to get involved in Vietnam |
| Warsaw Pact | The military alliance of the communist bloc in the Cold War |
| SEATO | was an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, or Manila Pact |
| CENTO | originally known as the Baghdad Pact or the Middle East Treaty Organization (METO), was a military alliance of the Cold War. It was formed in 1955 by Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey and the United Kingdom and dissolved in 1979. |
