Transcript Unit 8 Vocabulary(2).

Unit 8 Vocabulary
Perspectives On the Present
1945-present
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1. SALT
2. Warsaw Pact
3. Satellite State
4. NATO
5. Sputnik
6. Iron Curtain
7. Berlin Airlift
8. Containment
9. Truman Doctrine
10. Cold War
11. Red Scare
12. J. & E. Rosenberg
13. McCarthyism
14. Joseph McCarthy
15. Korean War
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16. Domino Theory
17. Nikita Khrushchev
18. Bay of Pigs
Invasion
19. Limited War
20. 38th parallel
21. Vietcong
22. Cuban Missile
Crisis.
23. United Nations
24. Marshall Plan
25. Terrorism
26. Partition
27. Zionism
28. Glasnost
29. Perestroika
30. Tiananmen Square
United Nations
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An international
peacekeeping
organization
founded in 1945 to
provide security to
the nations of the
world.
Zionism
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A movement
founded in the
1890s to promote
the establishment
of a Jewish
homeland in
Palestine
Glasnost
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A Soviet policy of
openness to the
free flow of ideas
and information,
introduced in 1985
by Mikhail
Gorbachev.
Perestroika
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A restructuring of
the Soviet
economy to permit
more local decision
making, begun by
Mikhail Gorbachev
in 1985.
Tiananmen Square
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A huge public
space in Beijing,
China; in 1989, the
site of a student
uprising in support
of democratic
reforms.
Warsaw Pact
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A military alliance
formed in 1955 by
the Soviet Union
and seven Eastern
European countries
Satellite State
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Weaker country
under the control
of a stronger
country
Marshall Plan
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A U.S. program of
economic aid to
European countries
to help them
rebuild after World
War II
Containment
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A U.S. foreign policy
adopted by
President Harry
Truman in the late
1940s, in which the
United States tried
to stop the spread of
communism by
creating alliances
and helping weak
countries to resist
Soviet advances
Cold War
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The state of
diplomatic hostility
between the United
States and the
Soviet Union in the
decades following
World War II.
NATO
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The North Atlantic
Treaty
Organization – a
defensive military
alliance formed in
1949 by ten
Western European
nations, the United
States, and
Canada.
Domino Theory
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The idea that if a
nation falls under
Communist
control, nearby
nations will also fall
under Communist
control.
38th Parallel
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Line that divided
Korea – Soviet
Union occupied the
north and United
States occupied
the south.
Sputnik
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First Soviet
satellite in space
which launched the
space race.
Iron Curtain
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Winston
Churchill’s term
for the
expansion of
Communist
control over
Eastern Europe.
SALT
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The Strategic Arms
Limitation Talks – a
series of meetings in
the 1970s, in which
leaders of the United
States and the Soviet
Union agreed to limit
their nations’ stocks of
nuclear weapons.
Berlin Airlift
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Supply of West
Berlin by American
and British planes
during a Soviet
blockade in 19481949.
Vietcong
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South Vietnamese
communist rebels
that waged a
guerrilla war
against the
government of
South Vietnam
throughout the
Vietnam War.
Partition
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A division into
parts, like the
1947 division of
the British colony
of India into
nations of India
and Pakistan.
Truman Doctrine
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U.S. policy to
assist Turkey
and Greece
struggling
against
communist
aggression.
Red Scare
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Fear of
communists,
both outside
and within the
United States.
J. & E. Rosenberg
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Americans
convicted and
executed for
passing nuclear
secrets to the
Soviets.
McCarthyism
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Unproven charges
of treason,
charges of procommunists
activities against
government
officials, movie
stars, and others.
Joseph McCarthy
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Senator who led
a campaign to
root out
suspected
Communist from
American
society.
Korean War
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United Nations
effort to stop
the spread of
communism
into South
Korea
Terrorism
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The use of force or
threats to frighten
people or
governments to
change their
policies.
Bay of Pigs Invasion
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Failed invasion
of Cuba by a
CIA-led force
of Cuban
exiles.
Nikita Khrushchev
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Soviet premier
during the Cuban
Missile Crisis
Limited War
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War fought
only to achieve
a specific goal
Cuban Missile Crisis
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Conflict between
the U.S. and the
Soviet Union
resulting from the
Soviet installation
of nuclear missiles
in Cuba.