Unit 5: US History Cold War

a system for calling people to military service

• domino theory

• draft

• brinkmanship

• hawk

US aid to prevent famine and communist revolutions

• Eisenhower Doctrine

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• containment policy

willingness to go to the edge of all out war

• brinkmanship

• brinkmeyer

• domino theory

• cold war

280,000 supply flights made by the Allies during an 11 month blockade

• Berlin Airlift

• Iron Curtain

• Berlin Wall

• Berlin Blockade

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

• Soviet alliance with Eastern European countries

• US alliance with Eastern European countries

• US alliance with Western European countries

• Soviet alliance with Western European countries

the division between free and communist countries in Europe

• Berlin Wall

• Iron Wall

• Berlin Curtain

• Iron Curtain

President Kennedy's disastrous plan to overthrow Fidel Castro in Cuba

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Bay of Pigs Invasion

• Tet Offensive

• Operative Overlord

communism's influence in a surrounding area

• domino theory

• Truman Doctrine

• Warsaw Pact

• Tet Offensive

closed the crossing points between East and West Berlin

• Iron Curtain

• Berlin Wall

• Great Wall

• Berlin Blockade

individuals who support the war effort

• doves

• draftees

• hawks

• hippies