10.1 A New Global Conflict p.584
A state of tension and hostility between nations aligned with the U.S. on one side and the Soviet Union on the other side.
What is the Cold War? p. 584
The movement to communities outside an urban core.
What is suburbanization? p. 596
Collectivization...
What is the forced pooling of peasant land and labor to increase productivity? p.604
An American concept [or theory] which held that noncommunist governments across Southeast Asia could fall to communism.
What is the Domino Theory? p. 609
The country the Soviet Union invaded in 1979
What is Afghanistan? p. 613
A policy rooted in the idea of containment.
What was the Truman Doctrine? p. 585
A vehicle that played a big role in the suburbanization of America.
What is the Car? p. 597
Was designed to increase farm and industrial output
What was the Great Leap Forward? p. 604
Communist rebels trying to defeat South Vietnam's government.
Who were the Viet Cong? p. 609
Muslim guerrilla fighters
Who were the Mujahedin? p. 613
A massive aid package that funneled food and economic assistance to Europe to help countries rebuild.
What is the Marshall Plan? p. 586
Mutual dependence of countries on goods, resources, and knowledge from other parts of the world.
What is interdependence? p. 596
Its goal was to purge China of [non-revolutionary] tendencies.
What was the Cultural Revolution? p. 604
A series of trails that wound through the rainforests of neighboring Laos and Cambodia.
What is the Ho Chi Minh Trail? p. 610
Openness.
What was Glasnost? p. 614
A military alliance where members pledged to help one another if any one of them was attacked.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)? p. 586
Recession...
What is an economic downturn? p. 596
Soviet and American forces agreed to divide Korea along this line of latitude.
What is the 38th parallel? p. 606
This series of attacks by the Viet Cong marked a turning point in American public opinion about the war.
What was the Tet Offensive? p 610
The largest "former" Soviet republic
What was Kazakhstan? p. 615 map
If one side launched a nuclear attack, the other side would retaliate in kind, and both sides would be destroyed
What is Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)? p.588
It funded Medicare, job training, and low-cost housing for the poor, and support for education.
What is The Great Society? p. 598
An area with no military forces, near the 38th parallel.
What is the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)? p. 607
Vietnam is Re-united.
What happened 2 years after American Troops withdrew? p. 611
December 1991
When was the End of the Soviet Union? p. 615
A value system and beliefs spread around the globe.
What is Ideology? p. 590
A political system where a government keeps most features of a capitalist economy but takes much responsibility for the social and economic needs of its people.
What is a Welfare State? p. 599
The U.S. might isolate the Soviets between NATO in the west and a hostile China in the east.
What was "playing the China card?" p. 605
An American Doctrine that allowed for the involvement of the U.S. in Vietnam.
What was the Truman Doctrine? p. 585
The restructuring of the Soviet government and economy.
What was perestroika? p. 614