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| 4209903529 | 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 | |
| 4209903530 | Partisans | guerilla warriors fighting in the resistance against occupying armies. The term is especially used for the resistance against the Germans and Italians in WW2 and against Franco's in Spain. | 1 | |
| 4209903531 | Genocide | The act of murdering an entire people. Originally used for the Nazi attempt to exterminate the Jewish people. | 2 | |
| 4209903532 | Superpower | The term ascribed to both the USSR and the US in recognition of their power, especially their military power, far greater than that of any other country in the world at this time. | 3 | |
| 4209903533 | Asymmetrical Warfare | Warfare between two groups armed and equipped very differently, and often using different strategies, usually between lightly armed guerilla warriors and conventionally equipped armies of powerful States. | 4 | |
| 4209903534 | Paper Tiger | The mocking comment of the Chinese towards the Americans, who had vast arrays if conventional nuclear weaponry but could not cope with simply armed warriors, often guerilla warriors, fighting for their homelands in Korea, Vietnam, and elsewhere | 5 | |
| 4209903535 | Pax Americana | Literally "American Peace". Designates the relative tranquility established within the American sphere of influence immediately after WW2 | 6 | |
| 4209903536 | Marshall Plan | An American program of economic assistance for rebuilding non communist Europe after WW2, proposed by Secretary of state George Marshall | 7 | |
| 4209903537 | Sphere of Influence | The geopolitical region in which one external power is considered dominant and other powers keep hands off | 8 | |
| 4209903538 | Iron Curtain | Term introduced by Winston Churchill to describe the division of Europe by the Soviet Union spreading its areas of control I'm central and eastern Europe from Western Europe | 9 | |
| 4209903539 | Containment | The postwar policy of the united States advocated by diplomat George Kennan to encircle and contain the Soviet Union within limits through military confrontation that would stop short of war. advocated a balance of force | 10 | |
| 4209903540 | Client State | A state that is economically, politically, or militarily, dependent on another state | 11 | |
| 4209903541 | McCarthyism | A strategy of attacking political opponents by labeling them unpatriotic ir even treasonous. Named for US senator Joseph McCarthy who employed it in his campaign against alleged communists | 12 | |
| 4209903542 | 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. It ran a vast network of forced labor camps throughout the USSR to which millions of citizens accused of "crimes against the state" were sent for punishment | 13 | |
| 4209903543 | Neo Colonialism | The assertion of power by one country over another, usually through economic dominance, but without formal political authority. A common relationship between countries that had previously been in a formal relationship | 14 | |
| 4209903544 | Prague Spring | The period in the spring of 1968 when it appeared all of Czechoslovakia would achieve greater freedom of expression and greater independence of control by the USSR. This hope was crushed by military intervention by the Soviets | 15 | |
| 4209903545 | Brezhnev Doctrine | In 1968 , head of the USSR government declared that the USSR would intervene militarily to prevent any of its satellite countries from claiming independence. Issued when Czechoslovakia sought independence | 16 | |
| 4209903546 | Domino Effect | The belief, held by many American policy makers, that if one country in a region became communist, others would follow, one after another | 17 | |
| 4209903547 | Blitzkrieg | Translates as "lightening war" German military tactic that brought great success | 18 | |
| 4209903548 | Battle of Britain | Air war between Britain and Germany with Brits winning out | 19 | |
| 4209903549 | 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.. Since the Normandy landing, June 6, 1944, the term "D-Day" has often most referred to that historic occasion | 20 | |
| 4209903550 | Stalingrad | Soviets won decisive battle if the eastern front and drove to Berlin Hitler's forces were turned back by soviets | 21 | |
| 4209903551 | Potsdam Conference | With the war in Europe near end, concessions were made to Stalin for assistance against Japanese in the pacific | 22 | |
| 4209903552 | Yalta Conference | Held to decide the end of WW2, Germany divided into occupation zones | 23 | |
| 4209903553 | Holocaust | The extermination of over 6 million Jews and other undesirables by WW2 nazis | 24 | |
| 4209903554 | Hiroshima/Nagasaki | Cities of war production chosen as targets for the atomic bomb | 25 | |
| 4209903555 | United Nations | World peacekeeping body crated following WW2 | 26 | |
| 4209903556 | NATO/Warsaw Pact | the alliance of the allied powers and the alliance of the axis powers or communists after the war | 27 | |
| 4209903557 | Massive Retaliation | Launching a full scale nuclear attack | 28 | |
| 4209903558 | Brinkmanship | Escalating a conflict all the way to the brink of war but not actually going there | 29 | |
| 4209903559 | Sputnik | The first Russian satellite launched into space which ignited the space race | 30 | |
| 4209903560 | CIA/KGB | Intel organization of the U.S. and the USSR | 31 | |
| 4209903561 | Cuban Missile Crisis | When the Soviets were storing lots of missiles in Cuba which is in close proximity to the U.S. | 32 | |
| 4209903562 | Vietnam War | Conflict between communist forces of North Vietnam and South Vietnam which lasted about 10 years | 33 |
