Early Cold War

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A $13 Billion United States program of aid to revive war-torn economies of Europe after WWII

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Marshall Plan

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American foreign policy adopted by President Truman in the late 1940's, in which we tried to stop the further expansion of communism around the world by creating alliances and helping weak countries to resist Soviet advances.

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containment

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A 1949 defense alliance initiated by the US, Canada, and 10 Western European nations to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country

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NATO

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term used by Churchill in 1946 to describe a growing East-West political divide in post-war Europe after WWII between communist and democratic nations

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Iron Curtain

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1947, President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology, mainly helped Greece and Turkey

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Truman Doctrine

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How did the United States respond to the Berlin Blockade in 1948? Options: by sending troops to Berlin to break the blockade, by bombing Berlin with the "big boy boomaroo", by surrendering control of Berlin to the Soviets, by airlifting(Operation Vittles) food and supplies into Berlin

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by airlifting(Operation Vittles) food and supplies into Berlin

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Policy promising military or economic aid to any Middle Eastern country needing help in resisting communist aggression.

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Eisenhower Doctrine

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part of The Second Red Scare, associated with a Senator's smear tactics as well as growing fears of spies and nuclear attacks

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McCarthyism

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What was a competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to explore space, where Russia launched the first satellite and manned flight into orbit, but the United States was the first to put a man on the Moon?

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The space race

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Berlin Wall

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Divided the city of Berlin between the capitalist West and Communist East