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Cold War (vocabulary (United Nations (the US, Soviet Union, and 48 other…
Cold War
vocabulary
United Nations
the US, Soviet Union, and 48 other countries - an international organization to protect members from agression
iron curtain (1945)
a phrase representing Europe's division into a democratic west and communist east - a border preventing goods and ideas from exiting the USSR
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Truman Doctrine (1947)
a speech in which Truman asked congress for foreign aid in Turkey and Greece, explaining differences between democracy and communism - US policy supporting free people who were resisting communism (with money and weapons)
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NATO (1949)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization - ten western European nations , US, and Canada (western democratic, capitalist)
Warsaw Pact (1955)
a pact between the USSR and other countries (eastern, socialist, communist)
brinkmanship
the willingness to go to the brink of war, threatening to go to war as a response to enemy agression
Molotov Plan (1947)
the USSR's response to the Marshall Plan, giving aid to communist countries
terms and concepts
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Mikhail Gorbachev
glasnost
openness, ability to speak openly about frustrations and government, free flow of ideas and information
demokratizatsia
democratization, wider access to government, more candidate choices
perestroika
reduced control of centralized planners in the government, more freedom for individual businesses, restructuring of Soviet economy
USSR collapse
the USSR fell because they went bankrupt, couldn't deal with revolts
events
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1940s
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1945- hiroshima, nagasaki
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