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| 4201135602 | Scorched Earth | A strategy of defensive warfare, in which everything that might be of use to an invading army is destroyed by the defending army as it retreats. | 0 | |
| 4201147573 | Partisans | they are guerrilla warriors fighting in the resistance against occupying armies. | 1 | |
| 4202094229 | Genocide | the act of murdering an entire race. | 2 | |
| 4202094230 | Superpower | The term ascribed to both the U.S. and the USSR in recognition of their power, especially their military power, far greater than that of any other country in the world at the time | 3 | |
| 4202096381 | Asymmetrical Warfare | Warfare between groups armed and equipped very differently, and often using different strategies, usually between lightly armed guerrilla warriors and conventionally equipped armies of powerful states. | 4 | |
| 4202096382 | Paper Tiger | The mocking comment of the Chinese toward the Americans, who had vast arrays of conventional and nuclear weaponry, but could not cope with simply armed warriors, often guerrilla warriors, fighting for their homelands in Korea, etc. | 5 | |
| 4202098213 | Pax Americana | Literally, "American peace," a Latin phrase derived by analogy from Pax Romana to designate the relative tranquility established within the American sphere of influence immediately after WWII | 6 | |
| 4202098214 | Marshall Plan | An American program of economic assistance for rebuilding non-communist Europe after WWII, proposed by U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall | 7 | |
| 4202099563 | Sphere of Influence | The geopolitical region in which one external power is considered dominant and other powers keep hands off | 8 | |
| 4202099564 | Iron Curtain | Term introduced by Winston Churchill to describe the division of Europe by the Soviet Union spreading its areas of control in Central and Eastern Europe from Western Europe. | 9 | |
| 4202100973 | Containment | The postwar policy of the United States, advocated by diplomat George Kennan, to encircle and contain the Soviet Union within limits, through militant confrontation that would stop short of war. | 10 | |
| 4202100974 | Client State | A state that is economically, politically or military dependent on another state | 11 | |
| 4202100975 | McCarthyism | A strategy of attacking political opponents by labeling them unpatriotic or even treasonous, named for U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, who employed it in his campaign against alleged communists. | 12 | |
| 4202103017 | Gulag | The acronym of Glavnoye, Upravleniye Ispravitelno Trudovykh Lagerey, the "Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps," a department of the Soviet secret police founded in 1934 under Stalin | 13 | |
| 4202105593 | Neo Colonialism | The assertion of power by one country over another, usually through economic dominance. but without formal political authority | 14 | |
| 4202105594 | Prague Spring | The period in the spring of 1968 when it appeared that Prague, and all of Czechoslovakia, would achieve greater freedom of expression and greater independence of control by the USSR | 15 | |
| 4202107801 | Brezhnev Doctrine | in 1968 Leonid Brezhnev, head of the USSR gov., declared that the USSR would intervene militarily to prevent any of its satellite countries from claiming independence | 16 | |
| 4202107802 | Domino Effect | The belief, held by many American policymakers, that if one country in a region became communist, others would follow, one after the other. | 17 | |
| 4202110427 | Blitzkrieg | Translates as "Lightening War" German military tactic that brought great success | 18 | |
| 4202111857 | Battle of Britain | Air war between Britain and Germany with Brits winning out | 19 | |
| 4202111858 | D-Day | Often used in the military as the day on which an important operation is to begin; more generally, signifies any date targeted for special action. | 20 | |
| 4202113036 | Sttalingrad | Soviets won decisive battle of the Eastern Front and drove to Berlin | 21 | |
| 4202115105 | Yalta Conference | With the war in Europe near end concessions were made to Stalin for assistance against Japanese in the Pacific, important members | 22 | |
| 4202116150 | Potsdam Conference | Held to decide the end of WWII, Germany divided into occupation zones, with Truman and Stalin in confrontation leading to the Cold War | 23 | |
| 4202116151 | Holocaust | The extermination of over 6 million Jews and other undesirables by the WWII Nazi's | 24 | |
| 4202119200 | Hiroshima/Nagasaki | Cities of war production chosen as targets for the atomic bomb | 25 | |
| 4202121111 | United Nations | World peacekeeping body created following WWII | 26 | |
| 4202121112 | NATO | (north Atlantic Treaty Organization) free world alliance against the Soviet Union | 27 | |
| 4202122996 | Warsaw Pact | Eastern bloc alliance of countries following the lead of the Soviet Union | 28 | |
| 4202124342 | Massive Retaliation | Full scale nuclear attack as a clear option for both superpowers | 29 | |
| 4202124343 | Brinkmanship | Never backing down from a crisis even if pushed to the edge of a nuclear war | 30 | |
| 4202126444 | Sputnik | First satellite launched into space by the Soviet Union creating world fear | 31 | |
| 4202126445 | CIA | Central Intelligence Agency (U.S.) | 32 | |
| 4202126446 | KGB | The Committee for State Security (U.S.S.R.) | 33 | |
| 4202129410 | Cuban Missile Crisis | Near nuclear global holocaust over Soviet attempts to put missiles into Cuba | 34 | |
| 4202130822 | Vietnam War | 35 |
