Cold war

United Nations

A group of 50 countries, made to protect members against aggression Based in New York

Iron curtain

Churchill’s phrase to represent the division in Europe between western Europe and communist eastern Europe

Containment

President truman’s foreign policy directed at blocking Soviet influence and blocking communism

Truman Doctrine

Truman s support for countries that rejected communism, which caused great controversy.

Marshall Plan

an assistance program that provided food, machinery, and other materials to help rebuild western Europe.

Cold war

War between United States and Soviet Union, a war over the struggle between political differences.

NATO

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Warsaw Pact

an alliance that the Soviet union formed because it felt threatened

Brinkmanship

the willingness to go to the end of the brink of war

Douglas MacArthur

general of the United States and Britain

Ho Chi Minh

A young Vietnamese nationalist that turned to communists for help

Domino theory

The effect where the United states supported France but then France was defeated, then United States saw a rising threat to the rest of Asia

Vietcong

Gained strength In the south, against Diem the dictator that ruled the south

Vietnamazation

Nixon’s plan that allowed U.S troops to pull out while the south increased their combat

Nonaligned nations

a third force of independent countries

glasnost

a policy that allowed free flow of ideas

perestroika

economic restructuring

CIS

a loose federation of former soviet territories

Shock therapy

a shift to free market economy, lower trade barriers