Editing Cold War (section)

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* '''Cold War''' — The state of political hostility between the US and USSR (c. 1947–1991).
* '''Iron Curtain''' — Winston Churchill's term for the political boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas.
* '''Containment''' — The US strategy to prevent the spread of communism abroad (Truman Doctrine).
* '''NATO''' — North Atlantic Treaty Organization; the military alliance of Western nations.
* '''Warsaw Pact''' — The military alliance of the Soviet Union and its satellite states.
* '''MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction)''' — The military doctrine that a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both.
* '''Proxy War''' — A war instigated by a major power that does not itself become involved (e.g., Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan).
* '''Detente''' — The easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries (1970s).
* '''Space Race''' — The 20th-century competition between the US and USSR for dominance in spaceflight capability.
* '''Berlin Wall''' — A guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
* '''Cuban Missile Crisis''' — A 13-day confrontation in 1962 that is considered the closest the world came to nuclear war.
* '''Glasnost''' — Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information ("openness").
* '''Perestroika''' — The policy of restructuring or reforming the economic and political system in the USSR.
* '''Domino Theory''' — The theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries.
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