USATestPrep Cold War Vocabulary

This is an international organization created by the U.S. and its allies in 1949 to prevent attacks by the Soviet Union

• United Nations

• NATO

• Domino Theory

• SALT

This is an international organization created following World War II to provide a way to negotiate disputes.

• United Nations

• Truman Doctrine

• SALT

• NATO

This was a delivery of supplies in a German city to circumvent the Soviet blockade.

• SALT

• NATO

• Domino Theory

• Berlin Airlift

This is a term that describes the severe anti-communist suspicion in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s.

• McCarthyism

• NATO

• United Nations

• Berlin Wall

This was the belief that if one land in a region came under the influence of communists, then more would follow.

• Domino Theory

• Communism

• Truman Doctrine

• NATO

This said that the United States would aid any nation in resisting the growing threat of communism and became the guiding force of American foreign policy during the Cold War.

• McCarthyism

• Berlin Airlift

• Monroe Doctrine

• Truman Doctrine

This was the most prominent part of the GDR border system and a symbol of the cold war that separated the East and West, communist and non-communist, parts of this German city.

• USSR Border

• United Nations

• Berlin Wall

• NATO

This is the acronym for political talks between the United States and the USSR regarding nuclear weapons.

• USSR

• NATO

• Soviet Union

• SALT