Chapter 17

An international peace keeping organization founded in 1945 to provide security to the nations of the world

During the Cold War, the boundary seperating the Communist nations of Eastern Europe from the mostly democratic nations of Western Europe

A US foreign policy adopted by President Harry Truman in the late 1940s, in which the US tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping weak coutries to resist Soviet advances

Announced by President Harry in 1947, a US policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents

A US program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after WWII

The state of diplomatic hostility between the US and the USSR in the decades following WWII

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization-a defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European Nations, the US and Canada

A military alliance formed in 1955 by the USSR and seven Eastern Euopean countries

A policy of threatening to got to war in response to any enemy aggression

In Communist China, a collective farm on which a great number of people work and live together

Militia units formed by yound Chinese people in 1966 in response to Mao Zedong's call for a social and cultural revolution

A 1966-1976 uprising in China led by the Red Gaurds, with the goal of establishing a society of peasants and workers in which all were equal

The idea that if a nation falls under Communist control, nearby nations will also fall under Communists control

President Richard Nixon's strategy for ending US involvement in the Vietnam War, involving a gradual withdrawal of American troops and replacement of them with South Vietnamese forces

During the Cold War, the developing nations not allied with either the US or the USSR

The independent countries that remainded neutral in the Cold War competition between the US and the USSR

A policy of reducing Cold War tensions that was adopted by the US during the presidency of Richard Nixon

Mao's 1958 effort to expand the success of the first 5-yr plan

Sandinistas fought against contras in this central American country

Policy begun in the 1950s to purge the Soviet Union of Stalin's memory

Efforts by the United States and Britain to defeat Soviet blockade of German City

The Soviet launching of this unmanned satellite in 1957 led to an increase in US science education

Failed invasion of Anti-Castro Cubans of Cuba in April 1961

Breif period of reform in Czechoslovakia before Soviet invasion in August of 1968

Losers in Chinese Civil War who retreated to the Island of Taiwan

Leader who first used the phrase "iron curtain"

Soviets shot down one of these spy planes in 1960 heightening Cold War tensions

Incident in 1962 in which the US and the USSR bring the world to the brink of nuclear war

Stalin created this wall of protection in Eastern Europe to shield itself from another invasion from the West

Name of mainland China after the Communist Revolution in 1949

Establisked an Islamic State in Iran in 1979

Reagan's program announced in 1983 to protect the US against enemy missiles

Third world countries were economically poor and politically unstable due to a lond history of this

Soviet leader following Stalin who called for "peaceful competition" with capitalist states

Four million soldiers and civilians died in this war in which almost no territory changed hands