The willingness to go to the brink of war

The divide in Europe between democratic Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe

Struggle over political differences carried on by means short of military action or war.

International organization intended to protect the members against aggression

The US would support countries that rejected communism

Alliance between The Soviet Union, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria & Albany

The US would provide food, machinery, and other materials to rebuild Western Europe.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization - Included the United States, Canada, plus ten European nations

Jiang Jieshi

Commune

Major uprising with the goal of establishing a society of peasants and workers in which all were equal.

Mao Zedon

Leader of United Nation forces in Korea

Cambodian Communist rebels

If one country becomes Communist, then its neighbors would also fall.

Nixon's plan which allowed for US troops to gradually pull out, while the South Vietnamese increased their combat role.

Degree of latitude that divided Korea into two countries

Ho Chi Minh

Leader of the Southern Vietnam government, acted as dictator.

Communist guerrillas in Vietnam

Cuban lawyer who led the Cuban Revolution

Anastasio Somoza

Leader of Muslim religious opposition to Western influences

Developing nations, often newly independent, who were not aligned with a superpower.

Independent countries

Daniel Ortega

Soviet leader who came to power after Stalin's death.

US president during the Cuban Missile Crisis, assassinated in 1963.

French word meaning "loosening"; a policy of lessening Cold War tensions.

US president who escalated US involvment in Vietnam

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks - limited the number of nuclear weapons the USSR and USA would possess

Soviet leader who adopted repressive domestic policies

US president who moved away from detente and increased defensive spending.

US president who moved away from brinkmanship toward detente.

In the 1970s, the United States and the Soviet Union moved towards a policy called

The nations of the developing world were known as

The goal of the Cultural Revolution was to

Diplomatic hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union after WWII was known as the

After WWII, the major foreign policy goal of the US was the