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Creation of the United Nations
Its main goal was to maintain peace in the world, respect the sovereignity of nations, acknowledge human rights and to solve global problems by co-operation. It had 3 main institutions: General assembly, Security council and the Intenationl Court of Justice. -
Truman doctrine
Contained the 2 most important ideas of Truman regarding the problems of communism. Containment policy is to stop the Soviet expansion and the spread of communism. The domino theory stating that a communist government in one nation would lead to communist takeovers in neighboring states. -
Paris Treaties-end of the 2.WW
It stated that the losers (eg.: Hungary, Romania, Italy) had to pay reparations and lost territories. The winners couldn't agree on the terms in case of Germany therefore it was divided into 4 between the winners. -
Third world/Non-Aligned Movement/Bandung conference
Mainly former colonial countries like Egypt, Indonesia,India and Yugoslavia. The main idea is a peaceful co-existence, refused to join any military cooperation, giving support to movements of national independence. -
Brezhnev doctrine
Brezhnev decleared that the Soviet Union had the right to interfere in the internal affairs of its satellites to „safeguard socialism”. -
SALT-I & II
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks between USA and USSR: main aim is to reduce the number of the nuclear weapons, with that stopping the arms race which was very dangerous. -
Helsinki Accords
Peaceful settlement of disputes, stated the non-intervention in internal affairs, also respected human rights and fundamental freedoms, equal rights and self-determination of peoples which interfered with the Brezhnev Doctrine. -
Strategic Defense Initiative (“Star Wars Plan”)
Initiative in which ground and space-based systems were created to protect the USA from nuclear missiles, leading the USSR into a competition which it couldn’t finance. -
Reagan doctrine
Reagan supported paramilitary forces against socialist governments, for example that's why they supported Afghanistan in the Afghan War. -
