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An international organization, who facilitate cooperation in international law, security, economic growth, social progress, human rights, and world peace.
It brought other nations together to handle problems without violence and to ensure international well being. |
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An artificial body placed in orbit around the earth or moon or another planet in order to collect information or for communication.
Countries would put them up in space in order to spy on other countries. |
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The action or policy of preventing the expansion of a hostile country or influence.
The U.S. government would do this to Communist countries in order to prevent communism from spreading. |
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A national barrier that prevents the passage of information or ideas between political entities.
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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| This doctrine acted as a support to European countries for rebuilding. |
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| Economic recovery plan designed and implemented by the United States to assist with recovery efforts for Western Europe after World War I. |
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| The hundreds of planes that carried food, by the United States, into Berlin for the 2 million people that were stranded there. |
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Basic mission: keep everyone safe if diplomatic efforts fail to do so (these are carried out through Article 5 of the Washington Treaty and/or under a UN mandate). |
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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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The state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the U.S.- led Western powers from 1945 to 1990.
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| On May 1, 1960, the Soviet Union shot down a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance plane and called the flight an "aggressive act." The U.S. denied Soviet claims that the pilot, F. Gary Powers, had stated that his mission was to collect Soviet intelligence data. |
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| A mid-to-late 20th century competition between the Soviet Union and the United States for supremacy in space exploration. |
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| An international crisis in October 1962, the closest approach to nuclear war at any time between the U.S. and the USSR. When the U.S. 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 U.S. demands a week later. |
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| The easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries. |
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A famous and well known movie series about a boy who is the son of the evil guy.
It is considered a sci-fy movie series and was released on May 25, 1977. |
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| (In the former Soviet Union) the policy or practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information, initiated by leader Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985. |
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(In the former Soviet Union) the policy or practice of restructuring or reforming the economic and political system.
It originally referred to increased automation and labor efficiency, but came to entail greater awareness of economic markets and ending of central planning. |
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| An independent trade union movement in Poland that developed into a mass campaign for political change and inspired popular opposition to communist regimes across eastern Europe during the 1980s. |
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The war of 1950-53 between North and South Korea.
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| The parallel line (which is latitude) that separates North Korea from South Korea. |
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A war between communist North Vietnam and U.S.- backed South Vietnam.
After the partition of Vietnam in 1954, the communist North wanted to unite the country as a communist state. |
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He was fighting for his independence of Vietnam through communism and used guerrillas tactics.
A warning he gave the French that they ignored: "You can kill 10 of my men for every one I kill of yours, yet even at those odds, you will lose and I will win." |
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Idea that, if one country falls to communism, the neighboring countries will also fall.
President Eisenhower came up with this theory. |
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| A member of the communist guerrilla movement in Vietnam that fought the South Vietnamese government forces 1954-75 with the support of the North Vietnamese army and opposed the South Vietnamese and U.S. forces in the Vietnam War. |
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| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
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| A Congressional resolution passed in 1964 that authorized military action in Southeast Asia. |
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| (In the Vietnam War) an offensive launched in January-February 1968 by the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese army. Timed to coincide with the First day of the Tet (Vietnamese New Year), it was a surprise attack on South Vietnamese cities. The attack shook U.S. confidence and hastened the withdrawal of its forces. |
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An art or literature that is quite imaginary but is written/made in a very realistic form.
First piece of this was: Nach-Expressionismus, Magischer Realismus |
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| A member of a guerrilla force in Nicaragua that opposed the left-wing Sandinista government 1979-90, and was supported by the U.S. for much of that time. It was officially disbanded in 1990, after the Sandinistas' electoral defeat. |
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| Panamanian statesman and general; head of state 1983-89. Charged with drug trafficking by a U.S. grand jury in 1988, he eventually surrendered to U.S. troops sent into Panama to capture him; he was brought to trial and convicted in 1992. |
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| Argentine soldier and statesman; president 1946-55 and 1973-74. The faltering economy and conflict with the Catholic Church led to his removal and exile. |
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