Cold War

Joint effort by the US and Britain to fly food and supplies into W Berlin after the Soviet blocked off all ground routes into the city

• Berlin Blockade

• Berlin Airlift

• Truman Doctrine

• Containment Policy

In 1995 these documents were released confirming the identities of Soviet spies in the American government and other industries.

• Truman Doctrine

• Containment policy

• Venona Papers

• HUAC

The world's first space satellite. This meant the Soviet Union had a missile powerful enough to reach the US. Sparked American fears that the Soviets had achieved technological superiority.

• Andromita

• Blockade

• NATO

• Sputnik

The act of accusing people of subversive activities without sufficient evidence

• McCarthyism

• Venona

• Nationalist

• HUAC

designed to contain communism by giving aid to Greece and Turkey

• Containment Policy

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• NATO

A congressional committee created to investigate those accused of disloyalty to the US.

• Loyalty Report

• NATO

• HUAC

• Containment Policy

US policy to stop expansion of Soviet Union and Communism

• Containment policy

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• Venona Papers

an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; also to unite in response to Communism

• Warsaw Pact

• Nationalists

• McCarthyism

• NATO

Soviet response to the efforts from the West to reunify Germany.

• Berlin Airlift

• NATO

• Berlin Blockade

• Warsaw Pact

the group in China fighting against communism - they were defeated

• Communists

• Nationalists

• Socialists

• Capitalists