Today we learned that mr. bruns is now called TG a.k.a The Greatest. Because he won his NCAA bracket. Now we get a key term . my term is Peaceful coexistence and michaels is Perestroika.
>>Peaceful Coexistence- its where capitalism and communism try to make peace. Competition without war, or a policy of peace between nations of widely different political systems, especially between communist and non-communist. (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/peaceful+coexistence) --The US and USSR and their respective polictical ideologies could co-exist together rather than fighting one another.
The Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence as promoted by China are:
- mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity
- mutual non-aggression
- non-interference in each other's internal affairs
- equality and mutual benefit
- peaceful co-existence
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaceful_coexistence)
1. Iron Curtain Speech – 1946 was given by Winston Churchill, it represents the communist and free in Europe
2. Domino Theory (effect)- Eisenhower 1950-1980, communism was spreading like dominos
3. Policy of Containment- containing communism
4. Truman Doctrine- 1945, Harry Truman, it stated that the U.S. should help Grease and Turkey economically and militarily so that they do not become communist
5. Marshall Plan-1948, Named after secretary of State, George Marshall, it was a plan to help Western Europeans so that communism didn’t spread
6. Brinkmanship- going to the brink of war, getting everything ready for was and hoping that the other side will back down, so we actually don’t have to go to war.
7. Massive retaliation/Mutual deterrence/ Mutual Assured Destruction- the Soviet Union now had nuclear weapons, so no one will use them, because then their side would die too, because we both had nuclear weapons
8. NATO vs. Warshaw Pact- NATO( North Atlantic Treaty Organization) it was our alliance against the Soviet Union with Western Europe and Canada- Warshaw pact was the Soviet Union’s alliance with Eastern Europe.
9. CIA vs. KGB- CIA(central intelligence agency) the CIA is an agency gathers information on other countries and terrorist attack- KGB, is the CIA of the Soviet Union
10. Détente (a French word meaning release from tension) is the name given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union
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