Cold War

3. A US foreign policy doctrine argued that the Soviet Union needed to be “contained” to prevent the spread of Communism throughout the world.
6. state a state in which the government takes responsibility for providing citizens with services such as health care
8. state a country that is economically and politically dependent on another country
9. weapon a weapon whose destructive power comes from nuclear reaction
10. liberation movement the renewed feminist movement of the late 1960s, demanded that women have political and economic equality with men
12. freed
14. race building up armies and stores of weapons to keep up with an enemy
16. the communist international; an organization formed in 1919 by Vladimir Lenin to promote revolution throughout the world
18. Plan A plan devised by President Harry S Truman and Secretary of State George C
19. society a society preoccupied with buying goods

1. the process of eliminating Joseph Stalin’s more ruthless policies
2. war a war in which the powers in conflict use third parties as substitutes instead of fighting each other directly
4. the fundamental restructuring of the Soviet economy; a policy introduced by Gorbachev
5. a period of relaxed tensions and improved relations between two adversaries
7. during the Cold War, the U.S. and Soviet policies of holding huge arsenals of nuclear weapons to prevent war
11. A soviet policy permitting open discussion of political and social issues
13. theory the idea that if one country falls to communism, neighboring countries will also fall
15. tactic an unexpected maneuver, like sabotage and subterfuge, used to fight an enemy
16. in China during the 1950s, a group of collective farms that contained more than 30,000 people who lived and worked together
17. group of countries with a common purpose