Cold War -- Foreign

a failed attempt by CIA-trained, anti-communist Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro

• Berlin Airlift

• Bay of Pigs Invasion

• Marshall Plan

• Police Action

a time of confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union when the United States threatened to use force to remove Soviet guided missiles from Cuba. The Soviets finally agreed to remove the missiles

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Bay of Pigs Invasion

• Civil Defense

• Berlin Airlift

a western military alliance formed in 1949 to defend against possible Soviet aggression in Europe

• Marshall Plan

• Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• United Nations

international peacekeeping organization established after World War II which worked to solve economic, social, cultural, and humanitarian problems throughout the world

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

• Marshall Plan

• United Nations

statement promising aid to nations threatened by aggression or subversion

• Marshall Plan

• Atlantic Charter

• Truman Doctrine

• United Nations

a term which referred to the figurative divide between the Soviet Union and the countries it dominated and Western Society. This divide began to disappear starting in 1989

• Iron Curtain

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

• Berlin Wall

the belief that if one country in a region, such as Southeast Asia, fell to communists, neighboring countries would also fall

• Iron Curtain

• Communism

• Truman Doctrine

• Domino Theory

dividing line between North and South Korea

• Seventeenth Parallel

• Thirty-eighth Parallel

• Berlin Wall

• Iron Curtain

conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States carried on by political and economic means instead of direct military confrontation

• Domino Theory

• Communism

• Cold War

• Iron Curtain

pushing negotiations to the point just before war breaks out in order to protect national interests

• Civil Defense

• Brinkmanship

• Police Action

• Domino Theory