Download Unit 8 Key Terms

Unit 8 Key Terms
United Nations
Iron Curtain
Containment
Cold War
Cultural Revolution
Domino Theory
Third World
Nikita Khruschev
Detente
SALT
Partition
PLO
Mujahideen
Apartheid
Nelson Mandela
Reunification
Tianamnmen Square
Four Modernizations
Developed Nations
Emerging Nations
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A policy of complete separation of the races
Soviet leader after the death of Stalin, key policy was destalinization
Nations that would become prime locations for new manufacturing operations
Five-year agreement that would limit to 1972 levels the number of intercontinental
ballistic and submarine-launched missiles each country could have
Term given to the division of India into separate Hindu and Muslim nations
Nations with industrialization, transportation, and business facilities for advanced
production of manufactured goods
Merging of two countries (Example: East and West Germany)
Goal was to establish a society of peasants and workers in which all were equal
Churchill’s phrase that represents Europe’s division into mostly democratic Western
Europe and Communist Eastern Europe
Organization formed to push for the formation of a Palestinian state
American foreign policy directed at blocking Soviet influence and stopping the expansion
of communism
Holy warriors fighting against Soviet-supported government in Afghanistan
U.S. policy that replaced brinkmanship and included lessening Cold War tensions
Site of a student protest for democracy
African National Congress leader
Struggle over political differences carried on by means short of military action or war
International organization intended to protect members against aggression
Developing nations, often newly independent, who were not aligned with either
superpower
A major justification for U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War
Progress in agriculture, industry, defense, and science and technology