Chapter 10 Vocabulary MWH

Building up armies and stores of weapons to keep up with an enemy doing the same thing

Military alliance of 32 member states from North America and Europe after WWII.

Russian for "restructuring, the policy reforming the economic and political systems of the USSR

A country that is economically and politically dependent on another country.

Prejudicial treatment usually based on race, religion, class, sex, or age

Russian for "openness", the policy of more open government and wider spread of information

The belief that nuclear attacks would not happen since both knew the other side could strike back with devastating power

The process of eliminating Stalin’s more ruthless policies in the Soviet Union

A group of nations with a common purpose, such as the EEC.

The idea that if one country falls to communism, so will its neighbor, and then its neighbor, and then its neighbor, etc

A desire to join neither NATO nor the Warsaw Pact following the beginning of the Cold War.

Plan to keep something, such as communism, within its existing geographical boundaries and prevent aggressive moves

A war in which the powers in conflict use third parties as substitutes instead of fighting each other directly

Groups of collective farms that contained more than 30,000 people in China

Military alliance formed by the Soviet Union and its communist allies in response to NATO