The main stages of cold war.

Iron curtain-division of Europe into mostly democratic (west)  and communist (east)

Containment- foreign policy, Harry Truman block Soviet influence, stop spread of communism

Brinkmanship -  policy under Eisenhower, our country would go to edge of war

Castro- Cuban Communist dictator

Nikita Khrushchev -  took over after Stalin

JFK - president 1960-1963 and during Cuban missile crisis

Douglas MAcArthur -  general of UN troops in Korean War

Domino theory - idea if 1 country becomes Communist others will follow

UN - organization of nations to solve problems in world

Marshall plan- US assisted west Europe by providing food,machinery, materials

Cold War- Communist (USSR) vs democracy (America)

Warsaw Pact -  alliance of USSR with other Eastern Europe nations

Détente- Nixon's policy to lessen cold war tension

Vietnamization - Nixon's plan to have South Vietnam take over war and pull US out.

Truman doctrine -  Truman's pledge to support countries that reject communism with military aid

Harry Truman -  president at beginning of cold war 1945-52

Stalin -  leader of USSR. At yalta conference(split up Germany east and. West)  with Churchill, and Roosevelt

Roosevelt - also at yalta conference

Iron curtain - phrase by Winston Churchill in speech in US about division of Europe

Partition - division of India between Muslim and Hindu

Ferdinand Marcus- general took power in Indonesia in ‘65 and became dictator

Jomo Kenyetta- 1st leader of Kenya

Mobutu Sese Seko- ruler of Zaire 1965-1997

Mohammed Ali Jinnah- leader if Muslim league, then Pakistan 1st president

Suharto - general became Indonesian dictator

Jawaharlal Nehru -  1st prime minister of India

Intifada - wide spread campaign of “civil disobedience” by palestinians

Non-aligned nations - neutral in cold war

Third world nations -  neutral countries

Cuban missile crisis -  Castro was leader, USSR built missile sites in Cuba

Negritude movement -  post WW2, African heritage

Imre Nagy - leader of Communist gov in Hungary

Lyndon Johnson - president after JFK assassinated

Romania - post war satellite nation belonged to Warsaw Pact

Nixon - president from ‘68-’74 Anti Communist

Reagan - policy of “Real politics” ended cold war

Leonid Brezhnev - took over USSR after Krhuschev

SALT - Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty signed by Nixon with USSR

JFK -  president during Cuban missile crisis and bay of pigs invasion

Alexander Solzhenitsyn - Soviet Discident (Anti gov)  won Nobel prize for literature

Mau Mau - secret society of African farmers forced off there land by British

Kwame Nkrumah - revolutionary leader worked to free the gold Coast from British

Shahs - conservative Muslim leader

The Mujahideen - org of Muslim students who established harsh and oppressive rule

Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi - westernized Iran

The Contras - group of rebels fought in Nicaragua supported by US