Cold War Vocabulary 1

Period of US / USSR hostility, but never fought militarily

• Cold War

• NATO

• Soviet Union

• Communism

US effort to support free peoples throughout world resisting takeovers by “armed minorities” or “outside pressures”

• Cold War

• Containment

• Truman Doctrine

• Soviet Union

a country with a dominant position in the world which has the ability to influence events and its own interests.

• Communism

• Superpower

• Containment

• Marshall Plan

Military alliance between the Soviet Union and the nations of Eastern Europe.

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• Containment

• Communism

The first artificial satellite to orbit Earth, launched by the Soviets in 1957.

• Apollo 11

• Soviet Union

• NATO

• Sputnik

The 1960 incident in which the Soviet military used a guided missile to shoot down an American spy plane over Soviet territory.

• U2 Incident

• Sputnik

• Berlin Airlift

• Containment

Intercontinental ballistic missile

• NATO

• Sputnik

• U2 Incident

• ICBM

Term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the division between communist and non-communist life.

• Berlin Wall

• Iron Curtin

• Shower Curtin

• Communist

Policy used that stated US would aid Middle East against communist threat.

• Korean War

• NATO

• Eisenhower Doctrine

• Truman Doctrine

the struggle to gain weapons superiority

• ICBM

• Mutually Assured Destruction

• Sputnik

• Arms Race