Unresolved Global Conflict (1945-1991) Vocabulary Review

The military alliance between the Soviet Union and its eastern European satellites.

• Ho Chi Minh

• Marshall Plan

• NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

• Warsaw Pact

The massive relief effort of food and fuel to democratic West Berlin following the cut off by the Soviets.

• Iron Curtain

• Arms Race

• Berlin Airlift

• Berlin Wall

The leader of the communist revolution in Cuba during the 1950's, who became an anti-American dictator.

• Cold War

• Fidel Castro

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Containment

The policy made by US President Truman in 1947 that made it clear that Americans would resist Soviet expansion in Europe or elsewhere in the world.

• Nikita Krushchev

• Leonid Brezhnev

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Truman Doctrine

Leader of Solidarity that helped Poland gain independence from the Soviet Union, later became president of Poland in 1990.

• Leonid Brezhnev

• Lech Walesa

• Truman Doctrine

• Nikita Khrushchev

A nation strong enough to influence the acts and policies of other nations.

• Solidarity

• Superpower

• Cold War

• Satellite

The Cold War policy of limiting the spread of communism.

• Cold War

• Containment

• Solidarity

• Fidel Castro

Belief that if one nation fell to communism, neighboring nations would also fall.

• Berlin Airlift

• Detente

• Glasnost

• Domino Theory

Restructuring of the Soviet government and economy in the 1980s.

• Blockade

• Detente

• Arms Race

• Perestroika

The leader of the Soviet Union following Stalin ruling from 1953-1964. He favored a peaceful co-existence with the West.

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Truman Doctrine

• Leonid Brezhnev