chapter 32
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| 368089067 | the cold war | struggle b/w democratic nations & communist nations after ww2 | 0 | |
| 368089068 | espionage | spying | 1 | |
| 368089069 | potsdam conference | a conference held in Potsdam in the summer of 1945 where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill drew up plans for the administration of Germany and Poland after World War II ended | 2 | |
| 368089070 | eastern bloc | nations favorable to russia; poland, bulgaria, romania, etc. | 3 | |
| 368089071 | marshall plan | financial aid to western europe | 4 | |
| 368089072 | nuremberg trials | trials for nazi war criminals | 5 | |
| 368089073 | berlin airlift | allie scarried supplies to berlin | 6 | |
| 368089074 | NATO | defensive alliance of western countries against the soviet union | 7 | |
| 368089075 | satellite states | dominated by russia | 8 | |
| 368089076 | warsaw pact | eastern European countries & the soviet union form an alliance | 9 | |
| 368089077 | U.N. | international peace organization | 10 | |
| 368089078 | welfare state | country that adopted socialist programs to decrease the gap between rich and poor | 11 | |
| 368089079 | council housing | housing for low income families | 12 | |
| 368089080 | technocrat | govt. worker trained in engineering of economics & worked towards govt. planning | 13 | |
| 368089081 | European Union | european countries joined together to foster trade and create one common market | 14 | |
| 368089082 | NAFTA | free trade b/w U.S., canada, mexico | 15 | |
| 368089083 | Truman Doctrine | Truman promised military aid to any nation fighting communism | 16 | |
| 368089084 | domino theory | idea that if 1 country fell to communism so would the ones next to it | 17 | |
| 368089085 | Red Scare | us fear of a communist takeover | 18 | |
| 368089086 | containment policy | idea of containing communism using any means possible | 19 | |
| 368089087 | korean conflict | korea was divided after ww2 at the 38th parallel | 20 | |
| 368089088 | CIA | central intelligence agency | 21 | |
| 368089089 | DMZ | separates countries; demilitarized zone | 22 | |
| 368089090 | brinkmanship | act of moving to the edge of war w/o going over | 23 | |
| 368089091 | dienbienphu | last battle b/w french & vietnamese | 24 | |
| 368089092 | Ho Chi Minh | communist leader of vietcong | 25 | |
| 368089093 | Geneva Conference | 17 parallel; where vietnam was divided | 26 | |
| 368089094 | gulf of tonkin resolution | allowed the president to send troops w/o congressional approval | 27 | |
| 368089095 | tet offensive | turning point in the war; us attacked by the vietnamese | 28 | |
| 368089096 | vietnamization | idea to slowly remove us troops & train south vietnam to take over | 29 | |
| 368089097 | boat people | vietnamese refugees who try to escape communism | 30 | |
| 368089098 | new feminism | new wave of women's rights that emphasized more literal equality | 31 | |
| 368089099 | destalinization | undoing of stalin's idea and projects | 32 | |
| 368089100 | krushchev | sucessor of USSR that attacked stalinism | 33 | |
| 368089101 | solidarity | polish labor movement that challenged USSR dominated govt. of poland | 34 |
