AP World History: Modern - Unit 8: Cold War and Decolonization VOCAB

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Tehran Conference

Yalta Conference

Potsdam Conference

Arms Race

Space Race

Containment

A geopolitical strategy aimed at preventing the spread of communism beyond where it already existed, particularly during the Cold War

Marshall Plan

A post-WWII initiative to provide economic aid from the U.S. to Western European states to help them rebuild and combat communism

Korean War

A proxy war that began when the Soviet-backed North Koreans attacked the American-backed South Koreans, resulting in a stalemate (both North Korea and South Korea are still independent states)

Angolan Civil War

A brutal conflict from 1975 to 2002 following Angola’s independence from Portugal, became a key proxy war in the Cold War, pitting the Soviet-backed MPLA against the U.S. and South African-supported FNLA and UNITA

NATO

A supranational organization consisting of the U.S., Canada, and several Western European countries; initially created to combat Soviet dominance

Warsaw Pact

A supranational organization that consisted of the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellite states

Chinese Communist Revolution

Marked the transition from an ROC- to PRC-controlled Mainland China

Nuclear Proliferation

The build-up of nuclear weapon stockpiles in the United States and USSR

White Revolution

A series of reforms launched in 1963 by Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi to modernize Iran’s economy and society, aimed at transforming Iran into a global power through land reforms, industrialization, and social welfare programs

Great Leap Forward

A failed movement aimed at rapidly industrializing and collectivizing agriculture in China; it resulted in famine and poverty

Proxy War

A conflict where two opposing countries or parties support combatants that serve their interests instead of waging war directly against each other