Key Terms-
- Iron Curtain wall- 1946 given by Winston Churchill
- Domino Theory Effect- Eisenhower 1950-1980, saying that If one country was to turn communist, that all the other ones will “fall like dominos”
- Policy of Containment-1946 Kennan. Tried to stop communism.
- Truman Doctrine-1947, Truman, says how US should help Grease and Turkey in military aid to prevent them failing.
- Marshall Plan-1948, named after George Marshall. American program to help the European to give them money to help after the war to stop communism
- Brinkmanship- we had to talk and act tough and get ready to go to war, but they would hope the other team would back do
- Massive Retaliation/Mutual Deterrence for 4 years US has nuclear weapons that no one else has
- Mutual Assured Destruction- Assurance no one would nuclear fight each other or everyone would die.
- NATO vs. Warsaw Pact- NATO- alliance with Canada and western Europe against SU, Warsaw Pact- SU with Western Europe against us.
- CIA- Central Intelligence Agency, 1947, Gather information of other countries, and information. KGB- security agency in SU that spied on us.
- Peaceful coexistence- had to make peace without war, you could coexistence peacefully- Nikita Khrushchev
- De-Stalinization-process of taking away the policies and laws that Stalin, undo all the things Stalin had done. Khrushchev’s idea. Mao Zedong
- Détente- release of tension, to ease tension between US and SU
- Perestroika- Change in the economy to have more of a say. Gave the people power.
- Glasnost- Change in the government to have more of a say. Gave the people power.
- Nuclear test ban treaty 1963- It banded above ground testing of nuclear weapons
- Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 1968-To prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. Countries that do not have nuclear weapons cannot legally get nuclear weapons. 8 counties have nuclear weapons legally. 1 illegally.
- Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (treaty) 1972- US and SU agreement that we would limit the amount of nuclear weapons and technology that we had.
- Anti-ballistic Missile treaty 1972- Treaty that limited that we would not build or have any technology that would shoot down any nuclear missiles. Maintain the concept of deterrence
United Nations- worldwide, peace-keeping organization.
- US Joined
- Military backup
- Vatican City, Kosovo, Taiwan is not in the United Nations.
- General Assembly
- Security Council-US, China, Russia, 3 permanent counties on the council
-They can send peace keeping troops, to keep peace
-Wage war
-Economic sanctions on countries.
- Changes from league of nations
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