Cold War & Modern Era Vocabulary

Front 1

political and diplomatic independence from both cold war powers

Back 1

non-alignment

Front 2

"openness" in Russian soviet policy of greater freedom of expression

Back 2

glasnost

Front 3

"restructuring" in Russia soviet policy of democratic and free market reforms

Back 3

perestroika

Front 4

imaginary line marking 38 degrees of latitude, north across the Korean Peninsula dividing Soviet forces to the North & American forces to the South after WW2

Back 4

38th parallel

Front 5

US strategy of keeping communism with it's existing boundaries and preventing its further expansion

Back 5

containment

Front 6

armed groups of citizen soldiers

Back 6

militias

Front 7

made of several ethnic groups

Back 7

multiethnic

Front 8

nonreligious

Back 8

secular

Front 9

soldier in a loosely organized force making surprise raids

Back 9

guerrillas

Front 10

belief that a communist victory in South Vietnam would cause noncommunist governments across Southeast Asia to fall to communism

Back 10

domino theory