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| MAD | A deterence to nuclear war because both sides have nuclear missiles and would use the on each other if one side should attack. |
| satellite nation | A country that is dominated politically and economically by a more powerful nation. |
| containment | Policy designed to keep communism from spreading. |
| Truman Doctrine | President Truman's program of helping nations threatened by communist expansion by giving them $400 million. |
| Marshall Plan | A large scale plan to help Europe rebuild its economy by giving $12 billion to aid Western Europe. |
| Berlin Wall | A Soviet built wall that divided Belin, Germany, East Berlin was under Soviet communist control.communist |
| Chiang Kai-Shek | Corrupt ruler of China that lost support from his people. |
| Mao Zedong | New communist Chinese leader that overthrew Chiang Kai-Shek and set up the People's Republic of China in 1949. |
| United Nations | An international peacekeeping organization set up in 1945 with 51 original member nations. |
| NATO | Alliance of non communist western European countries that the United States joined in 1949. |
| Warsaw Pact | An alliance of communist countries with the Soviet Union as the founding nation. |
| Korean War | Took place when communist controlled North Korea invaded South Korea and the United States was victorious in pushing the N. Koreans back into North Korea. |
| Douglas MacAthur | General that was fired by Truman for publically criticizing the president and disobeying a direct order. |
| Cease-Fire | Two sides agree to officially stop fighting. |
| Joseph McCarthy | Senator from Wisconsin that led a government investigation regarding communist spies in the United States. Many innocent people lost everything as a result of these communist "witch hunts". |
| censure | officially condemn |
| Nikita Khrushchev | Became the Soviet leader after Joseph Stalin Died, and was responsible for their first satellite in space (Sputnik). |
| N.A.S.A. | Agency that was set up to establish an American space program. |
| superpowers | Nations with enough military, political, and economic strength to influence events in many areas of the globe. |
| exiles | People who are forced to leave their own country. |
| Bay of Bigs | John F Kennedy organized 1,200 Cuban exiles to gain control of Cuba by removing communist leader, Fidel Castro from power, it failed horribly and Kennedy took all the blame. |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | Soviet ships carrying nuclear missles to Cuba that were intended to be directed at ever major US city were turned around when Kennedy refused to back down. Nuclear war was minutes from taking place. |
| Alliance For Progress | Kennedy's plan to build an alliance with Latin American nations by helping them economically, so they would not resort to communism. |
| Peace Corps | Kennedy's program which had thousands of Americans volunteering in under developed countries in Latin America. |
| Ronald Reagan | Republican president during the 1980s, strong anticommunist, aided friendly forces in Nicaragua and El Salvador against their communist enemies. |
| Iran-Contra Deal | President Reagan's staff illegally provided military aid secretly to the Contras in Nicaragua, to overthrow the communist backed Sandinistas. |
| Ho Chi Minh | Communist leader of Vietnam after leading his people successfully against the French that occupied Vietnam. |
| Vietcong | North Vietnamese soldiers that opposed the South Vietnamese leadeer Diem |
| Domino Theory | If one country falls to communism they in turn all will and eventually the US will fall as well. America's motivating factor for the Vietnam War. |
| escalated | expanded |
| hawk | Someone that favored war (in Vietnam). |
| dove | someone that opposed war (in Vietnam) and protested against it. |
| Tet Offensive | Vietcong suprise attack on cities in South Vietnam. |
| Richard Nixon | US republican president that was elected on the promise to end the Vietnam War. |
| Khmer Rouge | Communist leaders of Cambodia that led a brutal reign of terror there, killing thousands of their own people. |
| detente | easing of tensions to avoid war |
| SALT Agreement | This treaty limited the number of nuclear warheads that the Soviets and the United States held. |
| Star Wars | Reagan's nuclear missile defense system that was never perfected and cost more than $100 billion in its first 5 years. |
| glasnost | Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of being able to speak out against the Soviet government openly and honestly without fear of punishment. |
