Key Words Chapter 8

Allies' agreement to aid in liberating Europe

Focus on rebuilding Eastern Europe and defeating Japan

Meeting to negotiate WW2's end terms in Germany

Idea of countries choosing own government and leaders

Term for the division between Eastern and Western Europe

Smaller states dependent on a more powerful state

Belief in workers overthrowing capitalism globally

Preventing the spread of communism

Both sides being obliterated in a war scenario

Aid plan offering $12 billion to European nations

Major power inducing conflict between other nations

Belief in communism's regional spread if not contained

Alliance for mutual support against conflicts

Warsaw Pact nations combining forces under Moscow

Organization to halt communism's spread

Anti-Soviet treaty organization

Violence from differing ideological views

Ban on nuclear weapon testing in various environments

Preventing spread of military nuclear tech to non-nuclear states

Large state-run agricultural communities

Government where religion is supreme authority

A policy that called for China to go through land reforms

Mao's attempt to reinvigorate China's commitment to communism

Progressive reforms instituted by the shah

a system is a governance structure in which only a single political party controls the ruling system

an organization that promoted the interests of the Muslim population in the British colony of India

an intergovernmental organization to promote unity and solidarity of African states

political organization claiming to represent the world's Palestinians

Controls a fraction of Palestine called Gaza

the homeland, central territory or the state exercising power over a colonial empire

a relaxation of strained relations between nations

an attempt to improve the failing communist command economy. Means "restructuring"

encouraged transparency and freedom of speech within the Soviet Union. Means "openness"