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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 coundaryseperating 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 1940's, 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 | a U.S. policy of giving economic and millitary aid to free nations threatened by internal or ecternal opponents, announced by President Harry Truman in 1947. |
| Marshall Plan | a U.S. 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 following World War II. |
| NATO | North Atlantis Treaty Organization-- a defensive millitary alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western Europe countries, the Unites States and Canda |
| Warsaw Pact | a lilitary alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and secen Eastren European countries |
| brinkmanship | a policy of threatening to go to wat in response to any enemy agression |
| U-2 incident | the shooting down of a U.S. spy plane and capture of its policy by the Soviet Union in 1960 |
| Mao Zedong | Communist leader in China who held northwestern China |
| Jiang Jieshi | Nationalist leader held southwestern China |
| commune | in Communist China, a collective farm on which a great number of people work and live together |
| Red Guards | militia units formed by young Chinese people in 1966 in response to Mao Zedongs call for a socail and cultural revolution |
| Cultural Revolution | a 1966-1976 uprising in CHina, led by the Red Guards, with the goal if establishing a society of peasents and workers in which all were equal |
| 38th Parallel | Line where Korea was divided |
| Douglas MacArthur | General who commanded 15 nations in the movement to stop the invasion in Korea |
| Ho Chi Minh | Young vietnamese nationalist who turned to communists for help in his struggle |
| Domino Theory | the idea that if a nations falls unfer Communist control, nearby nations will also fall under Communist Control. |
| Ngo Dinh Diem | commanded anti-Communist government in South Vietnam |
| Vietcong | a group of Communits guerrillas who, witht he helf of North Vietnam, fought against the South Vietnamese government in the Vietnam War |
| Vietnamization | President Richard Nixon strategy for ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, involving a gradual withdrawl of American troops and replacement of them with South Vietnamese forces |
| Khmer Rouge | Communist rebels |
| Third World | nations not aligned with either superpower |
| nonaligned nations | the independent countries that remained neutral in the Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union |
| Fidel Castro | led revolution against Batista |
| Anastasio Somoza | Nicaraguan dictator |
| Daniel Ortega | Sandinistas leader |
| Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi | Iran's leader after World War II |
| Ayatolla Ruholla Khomeini | leader of religious opposition in Iran |
