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| Afghanistan | Invaded by the USSR in 1979 to maintain their sphere of influence. Because fo the guerrilla fighting, this is often compared to Vietnam |
| Arms Race | militarism. Cold War was characterized by a nuclear race between the superpowers |
| Arms limitation | reducing weapons i.e. SALT, INF, disarmament |
| Autonomy | independence or sovereignity |
| balance of power | deterent- two sides of a conflict are equal |
| Bay of Pigs | The landing on Cuba with the support of the CIA of anti Castro forces who were killed within three days |
| Berlin airlift | Operation that kept West Berlin supplied by air(1948-1949) |
| Berlin Blockade | (1948-1949) An unsuccessful attempt by the USSR to block West Germany |
| Brezhnev Doctrine | The policy of the USSR to intervene in the affairs of nations in the Warsaw Pact to ensure their solidarity with the communist cause |
| Brinkmanship | Opponents risk war rather than to give in i.e. Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Containment | US policy of forming alliances to stop the spread of communism |
| Cuban missile crisis | Oct, 1962, The US discovered ICBM's being installed in Cuba |
| deterrent | the belief that if you are sufficiently strong (massive retaliation) that your enemies would not attack you |
| Detente | a period during the Cold War when East- West relations improved (Nixon, Carter, Brezhnev) resulting in the SALT talks and Helsinki accords |
| Domino Theory | Central to the theory of containment, that if one country falls to communism, the neighboring countries will fall in turn |
| Gulf War | The conflict involving the US ted forces sponsored by the UN which repelled the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait (1990-1991) |
| Helsinki Accords | An agreement by 35 nations in 1975 which called for Peaceful co-existence among all nations and guarantees of human rights |
| Hungarian Revolution | 1956 revolt against Soviet tion that was put down by force |
| Iron curtain | An imaginary line separating the Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe |
| Korean War | 1950-53 North Korea invaded South Korea past the division of the 38th parallel. It ended in a stalemate. This was the irst intervention of the UN and collective security |
| Marshall Plan | 1947 providing aid to recovering countries to support the American policy of containment |
| Non-Alignment | a country which does not want to participate in the golbal rivalries of the superpowers i.e. Yugoslavia |
| Non Proliferation Treaty | 1968 international agreement to not help others to aquire nuclear weapons or technology |
| Palestine | Region of the Middle East presently in an ongoing dispute with Israel |
| Peaceful Co-existence | A period of thaw during the Cold War during the Khrushchev era which lead to the Test Ban Treaty |
| PLO | Palestine Liberation Organization which is taken as the spokesperson of the Palestinian People |
| Potsdam Conference | 1945 Stalin, Truman and Churchill (later Atlee) meet to deal with post war Europe (de-nazification, Poland) |
| Prague Spring | 1968 Increasing freedoms in Czechoslovakia were put down by the USSR using the Brezhnev Doctrine |
| SALT | Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. An example of disarmament |
| SDI | Also known as 'Star Wars'. Laser weapons used to knock out ICBM's before they could reach their targets (Reagan) |
| Spheres of Influence | The control exerted over weaker regions by strong powers |
| Supranationalism | loss of national sovereignity to achieve common international goals |
| Truman Doctrine | Promise of aid to contain communism i.e. Marshall Plan |
| United Nations | International orgainization icated to collective security. i.e. Korean War, Gulf War, Peacekeeping |
| Vietnam War | The nationalist struggle for independence and unity in Vietnam. Charaterized by guerilla warfare |
| NATO/ Warsaw Pact | Rival 'defensive' military alliances head by the superpowers |
| Yalta Conference | 1945 Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin discussed post war problems and the setting up of the UN |
