U.S. History Cold War Review

Country in Eastern Europe that was controlled politically and economically by the Soviet Union

• HUAC

• Warsaw Pact

• NATO

• Satellite nation

The struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union to gain weapons superiority

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• Arms Race

• United Nations

This was the imaginary line that divided Europe between the capitalist West and Communist East

• Iron Curtain

• Berlin Wall

• NATO

• United Nations

The competition between the United States and Soviet Union for power and influence in the world.

• containment

• Cold War

• HUAC

• Iron Curtain

This promised American financial aid to all European nations to help them rebuild after WWII

• HUAC

• Warsaw Pact

• NATO

• Marshall Plan

The willingness to push to the verge of war, without actually going to war

• brinkmanship

• containment

• arms race

• space wars

After WWII, American leaders developed a policy of _____ to resist and stop the spread of communism

• Satellite nation

• containment

• Warsaw Pact

• Iron Curtain

Provided vital supplies to a region blockaded by the Soviet Union

• HUAC

• Warsaw Pact

• Berlin Airlift

• NATO

In the 1940s, the _____ investigated the motion picture industry for Communist influences

• HUAC

• NATO

• Satellite nation

• United Nations

This defensive military alliance was the first military alliance the US entered into during peacetime

• Warsaw Pact

• United Nations

• NATO

• Allies