Unit 9 Cold War

U.S. plan to give $13 billion to the countries of Western Europe in an effort to rebuild out of fears that poverty would lead to the spread of communism

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• Containment

• Domino Theory

Radical form of socialism in which the government controls all aspects of society and the economy

• Democracy

• Mercantilism

• Communism

• Fascism

A system of government in which power is vested in the people, who rule either directly or through freely elected representatives

• Democracy

• Communism

• Mercantilism

• Fascism

The U.S. foreign policy that pledged money and military support to stop the spread of communism

• Marshall Plan

• Domino Theory

• Containment

• Truman Doctrine

Soviet attempts to cut off land access to the city of Berlin and stop all supplies from coming into the western half of the city.

• Berlin Blockade

• Berlin Airlift

• Berlin Transfer

• Berlin Containment

U.S. policy to stop the spread of communism.

• Detente

• Brinkmanship

• Containment

• Glasnost

Idea that if one country in a region fell to communism, other countries in the region would eventually fall to communism as well.

• Containment

• Detente

• Glasnost

• Domino Theory

Allied response to the Soviet blockade of Berlin when supplies were flown into the city.

• Berlin Wall

• Berlin Blockade

• Berlin Airlift

• Berlin Containment

Cold War military alliance, formed in 1955, of the communist nations of Eastern Europe led by the Soviet Union.

• NATO

• WARSAW Pact

• NAFTA

• NASA

International peacekeeping organization replaced the League of Nations in 1945.

• League of Nations

• United Nations

• WARSAW Pact

• NATO