Key Terms
Iron Curtain Speech-Winston Churchill- how the Soviets are dominating eastern Europe
Domino Theory- speculated one country falls to communism in one are all the other countries would follow, its a domino effect
Policy of Containment- United states foreign Policy containing communism
Truman Doctrine- stated that the US would aid Greece and Turkey from falling under Soviets power
Marshall Plan- George Marshall- gave money and aid to Europe to help rebuild their economy after world war ii , all about containing communism
Brinkmanship- pushing you to the brink of war and then you don’t do it
Massive retaliation/ Mutual- Military strategy- if one country has nuclear weapons and so does the other country you don’t use them- we will all die if we have a nuclear war
NATO - Alliance against communism (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Warsaw Pact-The alliance of the communist countries
CIA-(Central Intelligence Agency)-gather intelligence about other countries, spied on all the communist countries
KGB- Was the FBI/CIA to the Soviet Union
Peaceful coexistence (1954)- competition without war, peaceful coexistence
De-Stalinization- undoing what Stalin did
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 1963- The US, Soviet Union all agreed to ban testing nuclear weapons above ground, so everything must be tested underground
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 1968- International treaty that objects the spreading of nuclear weapons, you can not make nuclear weapons, but you can use nuclear power energy
Detente- the easing of relationships and hostility between the US and Soviet Union
SALT ( Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Treaty) 1972- limited nuclear weapons
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty 1972- Between the US and Soviets- Neither country can put together a system that will be able to defend themselves
Perestroika- movement for reformation and reconstruction
- Glasnost- is much more open as an government- the Soviet Union needs a change and willing to change their economic system
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