Cold War Vocab

Super Powers

• The United States and the U.S.S.R. during the Cold War

• American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world

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

• An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO

Iron Curtain

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

• A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952)

• A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

• A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.

Yalta Conference

• 1945 Meeting with US president FDR, British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill, and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war

• July 26, 1945 - Allied leaders Truman, Stalin and Churchill met in Germany to set up zones of control and to inform the Japanese that if they refused to surrender at once, they would face total destruction.

• 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

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

Potsdam Conference

• July 26, 1945 - Allied leaders Truman, Stalin and Churchill met in Germany to set up zones of control and to inform the Japanese that if they refused to surrender at once, they would face total destruction.

• 1945 Meeting with US president FDR, British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill, and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post-war

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

• An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO

Containment

• American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world

• airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin

• A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

• A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.

Marshall Plan

• A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952)

• 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

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

• The term associated with Senator Joseph McCarthy who led the search for communists in America during the early 1950s through his leadership in the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Truman Doctrine

• 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

• A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952)

• A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

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

Berlin Airlift

• airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin

• Couple executed for giving military secrets to the Soviets in the 1950's

• Eisenhower first coined this phrase when he warned American against it in his last State of the Union Address. He feared that the combined lobbying efforts of the armed services and industries that contracted with the military would lead to excessive Congressional spending.

• A 1956 term used by Secretary of State John Dulles to describe a policy of risking war in order to protect national interests

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

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

• airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin

• An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO

• A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years.

Democracy

• A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

• A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.

• A 1956 term used by Secretary of State John Dulles to describe a policy of risking war in order to protect national interests

• A 1956 term used by Secretary of State John Dulles to describe a policy of risking war in order to protect national interests