Early Cold War Vocabulary

A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe after WWII

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• Serviceman's Readjustment Act (GI Bill)

• NATO

American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world

• expansionism

• imperialism

• containment

• exceptionalism

The House Committee on Un-American Activities was an investigating committee which investigated what it considered un-American/Communist propaganda

• NATO

• HUAC

• UN

• LON

A policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy aggression.

• Appeasement

• Armistice

• Brinkmanship

• Retaliation

A 1949 defense alliance initiated by the US, Canada, and 10 Western European nations

• Warsaw Pact

• NATO

• UNIA

• AFL

A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region

• Steel Blinds

• Cotton Shades

• Iron Curtain

• Chiffon Drapes

1947, President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology, mainly helped Greece and Turkey

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

• EO 9906

• EO 8802

Communist nations in Eastern Europe on friendly terms with the USSR and thought of as under the USSR's control

• Satellite Nations

• League of Nations

• United Nations

How did the United States respond to the Berlin Blockade in 1948?

• by sending troops to Berlin to break the blockade

• by bombing Berlin until the Soviets surrendered

• by surrendering control of Berlin to the Soviets

• by airlifting food and supplies into Berlin

Secret collaboration of the U.S. and U.K. intelligence agencies involving decoding messages sent by intelligence agencies of the Soviet Union.

• Marshall Plan
• Venona Papers
• Collective security
• 38^th parallel