Module 23: Cold War Vocab Part 1

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• The United Nations

• a U.S. initiative to aid Western European countries in rebuilding after World War II

• Iron Curtain

• an imaginary barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989.

• Containment

• an international organization composed of 193 member states. Its primary goal is to maintain international peace and security, promote human rights,

• Marshall Plan

• US foreign policy established in 1947, committing the United States to support countries threatened by communism, particularly Greece and Turkey

• Truman Doctrine

• a doctrine adopted by the United States in the late 1940s to contain the spread of communism beyond its existing borders.

a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union, along with their respective allies, from the end of World War II until the early 1990s

• The United Nations

• Cold War

• The Vietnam War

• The Korean War

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• Brinkmanship

• a foreign policy strategy where nations would intentionally push a dangerous situation to the edge of conflict, hoping to force their opponent to back down before actual war broke out

• Warsaw Pact

• a military alliance formed in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective defense against the perceived threat of the Soviet Union and its allies.

• NATO

• a military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries as a response to NATO's formation

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• Mao Zedong

• a Chinese political and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China.

• Commune

• a Marxist theorist, revolutionary, and, from 1949 to 1959, the first chairman of the People's Republic of China.

• Red Guards

• a sociopolitical movement in China from 1966 until 1976 aimed at preserving Chinese communism by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements.

• Cultural Revolution

• a mass paramilitary social movement of young people in China during the Cultural Revolution.

• Jiang Jieshi

• a collective community that shares resources and responsibilities, often associated with agricultural production.