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| A state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare, in particular. |
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The action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits. |
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| Designates a country that is formally independent in the world, but under heavy political, economic and military influence or control from another country. |
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| The principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection. |
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| A program of financial aid and other initiatives, sponsored by the US, designed to boost the economies of western European countries after World War II. |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
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| A treaty of mutual defense and military aid signed at Warsaw on May 14, 1955, by communist states of Europe under Soviet influence, in response to the admission of West Germany to NATO. The pact was dissolved in 1991. |
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| European Economic Community |
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| A group of countries that eliminate trade barriers between themselves while remaining free to pursue independent policies with regard to trade barriers with nonmember countries. |
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| The notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989. |
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| The policy of eradicating the memory or influence of Joseph Stalin and Stalinism, especially after 1956. |
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| The competition between nations regarding achievements in the field of space exploration. |
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Nuclear Annihilation
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| Of completely destroying or defeating someone or something. |
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| The war, begun on June 25, 1950, between North Korea, aided by Communist China, and South Korea, aided by the United States and other United Nations members forming a United Nations armed force: truce signed July 27, 1953. |
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| A conflict, starting in 1954 and ending in 1975, between South Vietnam and the Vietcong and North Vietnam. |
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| Theory that if one country is taken over by an expansionist, especially Communist, the nearby nations will be taken over one after another. |
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| Resulted from a conference in Geneva, Switzerland, from 26 April to 21 July 1954 that focused primarily on resolving the war between French forces and those of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV), led by the nationalist-communist Ho Chi Minh. |
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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| An international crisis in October 1962, the closest approach to nuclear war at any time between the US and the Soviet Union. When the US discovered Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba, President John F. Kennedy demanded their removal and announced a naval blockade of the island; the Soviet leader Khrushchev acceded to the US demands a week later. |
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| Chinese statesman and general; president of China and, and of Taiwan. He tried to unite China by military means but was defeated by the Communists. Forced to abandon mainland China, he set up a separate Nationalist Chinese State in Taiwan. |
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| Chinese statesman; chairman of the Communist Party of the Chinese People's Republic; head of state. A cofounder of the Chinese Communist Party in and its effective leader from the time of the Long March, he eventually defeated both the occupying Japanese and rival Kuomintang nationalist forces to create the People's Republic of China in. |
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| The principle in law according to which children's citizenship is determined by the citizenship of their parents. |
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