Cold War Vocabulary

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Line that separated North Korea and South Korea

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38th parallel

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Theory that nations were like a row of dominoes: if one fell to communism, the others would fall, too

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Domino theory

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Developing nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America

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Third World

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Countries that did not take sides with either the United States or the Soviet Union

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Nonaligned nations

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Policy to decrease tensions between the superpowers

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Détente

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Talks to limit nuclear arms in the United States and the Soviet Union

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SALT

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President of the United States from 1981 to 1989

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Ronald Reagan

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World organization formed to prevent war

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United Nations

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Division between Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War

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Iron curtain

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Policy aimed at preventing the spread of communism

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Containment