Unit 8 Vocab Honors World History

An international peacekeeping organization founded in 1945 to provide security to the nations of the world

A U.S. program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after World War II

A U.S. foreign policy adopted by President Harry Truman in the late 1940's, in which the United States tried to stop the spread of Communism by creating allainces and helping weak countries resist to Soviet advances.

The state of diplomatic hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union in the decades following World War II.

A defensive military allaince formed in 1949 by ten Western European nations, the United States, and Canada.

A military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and seven Eastern European countries.

A policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy agression.

The idea that if a nation falls under communist control, nearby nations will also fall under communist control.

A group of Communist geurillas who, with the help of North Vietnam, fought against the South Vietnamese government in the Vietnam War.

President Richard Nixon's strategy for ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war, involving a gradual withdrawl of American troops and replacement of them with South Vietnamese forces.

Line that divide Korea - Soviet Union occupied the north and United States occupied the south.

Militia units formed by young Chinese people in 1966 in response to Mao Zedong's call for a social and cultural revolutions

A 1966-1976 uprising in China led by the Red Guards, with the goal of establishing a society of peasants and workers which were all equal.

A group of communist rebels who seized power in Cambodia in 1975

A series of meetings in the 1970s, in which leaders of the United Nations and the Soviet Union agreed to limit their nation's stocks of nuclear weapons.