Cold War Vocab

The United States and the U.S.S.R. during the Cold War

A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region

1945 Meeting with US president FDR, British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill, and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war

July 26, 1945 - Allied leaders Truman, Stalin and Churchill met in Germany to set up zones of control and to inform the Japanese that if they refused to surrender at once, they would face total destruction.

American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world

A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952)

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

airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin

A 1949 defense alliance initiated by the US, Canada, and 10 Western European nations

an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.