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Uneasy Peace
Postwar / Threat of Communism
The Bomb / MAD
Europe
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100
the hostile but nonviolent struggle for power between the United States and the Soviet Union, as well as their respective allies, from the end of World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991
What is the Cold War
100
a nation that is so powerful that it influences or controls less powerful states
What is superpower
100
the power released by a nuclear reaction
What is atomic energy
100
a U.S. plan, initiated by the Secretary of State George Marshall and implemented from 1948 to 1951, to aid in the economic recovery of Europe after World War II by offering certain European countries substantial funds
What is the Marshall Plan
100
the sudden overthrow of a government by violent force
What is coup d'état
200
the working class in a society
What is proletariat
200
after World War II, the U.S. foreign policy practice of attempting to restrict the expansion of Soviet influence around the world
What is containment
200
a panel established by the United Nations in 1946 to propose ways to control atomic energy and restrict the development of nuclear weapons
What is UN Atomic Energy Commission
200
a country under another country's control
What is satellite nation
200
an area, often along the border between two military powers, that no military forces are allowed to enter
What is demilitarized zone (DMZ)
300
an economic system in which the people, often under supervision of the state, jointly own the means of production and distribution
What is collectivism
300
the ideological barrier that existed between Eastern and Western Europe from 1945 to 1990
What is Iron Curtain
300
a competition between nations to achieve the more powerful weapons arsenal
What is arms race
300
as part of the Cold War, a military alliance formed in 1949 among the United States, Canada, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, Iceland, Italy, Britain, Denmark, Norway, and Portugal—and expanded to include Greece and Turkey in 1952 and West Germany in 1955—to establish collective security against the Soviet Union
What is North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
300
originally, the group of nations that had recently gained independence from colonial rule and were not aligned with the West (First World) or the East (Second World) after World War II; more broadly, the developing nations of the world
What is Third World
400
held in February 1945 in the Soviet city of Yalta, a conference of the main Allied leaders—U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, British prime minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet premier Joseph Stalin—to plan the future of post–World War II Europe
What is the Yalta Conference
400
a dominating influence of one country over others
What is hegemony
400
a hydrogen bomb, or a bomb created by fusing atoms; more powerful than an atomic bomb, a weapon of mass destruction that the United States first tested in 1952 as part of the arms race
What is H-bomb
400
as part of the Cold War and in response to the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, an agreement signed in 1955 by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania to establish a military alliance for mutual defense
What is the Warsaw Pact
400
a war fought on the Korean Peninsula from 1950 to 1953 after troops from communist North Korea, armed with Soviet weapons, invaded democratic South Korea, prompting the United States and the United Nations to send forces to support South Korea and fight to unify the Korean Peninsula into one democratic nation, which in turn prompted China to join the war on North Korea's side; at war's end, the peninsula remained divided into two nations
What is the Korean War
500
in July and August 1945 in the German city of Potsdam, a conference of the main Allied leaders—U.S. president Harry S. Truman, British prime minister Winston Churchill and later his successor Clement Atlee, and Soviet premier Joseph Stalin—to finalize post-World War II plans for Europe]
What is the Potsdam Conference
500
a U.S. foreign policy, established in 1947 by President Harry S. Truman, of providing economic and military aid to countries—initially Greece and Turkey—that were attempting to resist communism
What is the Truman Doctrine
500
during the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union, the principle that either side would respond to a nuclear attack by launching its own missiles, which helped prevent the Cold War from becoming a hot war
What is Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD)
500
the Soviet blockade of the German city of Berlin, implemented from 1948 to 1949 to halt land travel into the city in hopes of forcing the United States, Great Britain, and France to give up their plan to combine their occupation zones into a single, democratic West German state; the Allied nations resisted the blockade by airlifting food and supplies into Berlin
What is Berlin Blockade
500
a secret political, economic, or military operation that aims to shape events or influence affairs in a foreign country in order to support the initiating nation's foreign policy
What is covert action