Cold War - A state of tension between the US and USSR from 1945-91, Berlin Airlift - When the city of Berlin was cut off and the US brought in supplies until Stalin gave up., NATO - A military alliance where all members agree to help if even 1 country is attacked., Brinkmanship - a strategy where you push the other side to the very edge to gain an advantage, Buffer State - nations that help block another from attack or danger, Containment - US policy to stop the spread of communism, Deterrence - The risk of using nuclear weapons was too great so we did not use them., Domino Theory - If one country falls to communism, others will also fall, Glasnost - Openess, a soviet policy to increase freedom of information and discussion in the USSR, Great Leap Forward - A plan to increase production and economic growth in farms and industry in China , Ho Chi Minh - The communist leader of Vietnam, Iron Curtain - The barrier between communist and non-communist nations. Ex. Berlin Wall, Mao Zedong - The communist leader of China, Marshall Plan - A package of aid (money and supplies) given by the US after WWII to help countries rebuild, Parity - To have approximately equal capabilities, Perestroika - Restructuring, the Soviet plan to rework the economy and government that helped lead to the collapse of the Soviet Union, Brezhnev - The leader of the Soviet Union during Detente and the SALT talks. , Khrushcev - The leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis, SALT Talks - Meetings in the 70s where leaders of the Superpowers agreed to limit nuclear weapons., Satellite - A country under the control of another (puppet state), Truman Doctrine - US policy to keep communism from spreading, U-2 Spy Plane Incident - When the Soviet Union caught the US spying and taking photos of their country. They captured an US pilot., Vietnamization - American strategy to reduce the numbers of US soldiers in Vietnam while giving control back to the South Vietnamese., Warsaw Pact - An organization created by Stalin in reaction to NATO, Yalta Conference - A meeting at the end of WWII where the Big 3 discussed the post-war era but relations were strained., Detente - The easing of tension between Superpowers in the 1970s, Cuban Missile Crisis - The closest the world came to nuclear war. , 38th Parallel - The line dividing North and South Korea. This border was reset after the Korean War., Communism - Economic system where there is no private property and everything is owned by the government and shared, Capitalism - Economic system where there is a free market and little government interference,

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