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Ch 31 The cold war and decolonization North Atlantic Treaty organization (NATO): organization formed in 1949 as a military alliance of western European and north american states against the soviet union and its east European allies United nations: international organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace and cooperation. it replaces the league of nations World bank: A specialized agency of the united nations that makes loans to countries to economic development, trade promotion and debt consolidation. its formal names is the international bank for reconstruction and development Marshall plan: Us program to support the reconstruction of western Europe after World war 2. By 1961 more than $20 billion in economic aid had been dispersed. European community: An organization promoting economic unity in Europe formed in 1967 by consolidation of earlier, more limited, agreements. Replaced by the European union in 1993. Truman Doctrine: Foreign policy initiated by Us president Harry Truman in 1947. It offered military aid to help Turkey and Greece resist Soviet military pressure and subversion. War-saw pact: The 1955 treaty binding the Soviet union and countries of eastern Europe in an alliance against the North atlantic treaty organization Korean War: 1950-1953 conflict that began with north Korea's invasion of south korea and came to involve the united nations (primarily the us) allying with south korea and the people's republic of china allying with north korea. Vietnam War: (1954-1975) Conflict pitting North Vietnam and south vietnamese communist guerrillas against the south vietnamese government aided after 1961 by the us Cuban missile crisis: (1962) brink of war confrontation between the us and the soviet union over the latter's placement of nuclear armed missiles in cuba. Helsinki Accords: 1975 political and human lights agreement signed in helsinki, Finland, by the soviet union and Western Europe countries Non aligned nations: developing countries that announced their neutrality in the cold war Third war: term applied to a group of developing countries who professes non alignment during the cold war Cultural revolution: (1966-1969) campaign in china ordered by mao zedons to purge the communist party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation organization of petroleum exporting countries: organization formed in 1960 by oil-producing states to promote their collective interest in generating revenue from oil.