Early Cold War thru the 1950s

USA and USSR

• Superpowers

• Wonder Twin Powers

• Third World Nations

• Gross Domestic Product

Hostility between the USA and USSR that comes short of all out war

• Cold War

• Domestic War

• Counter Terrorism

• Nuclear War

The formalization of President Truman’s plan to stop the spread of communism

• Truman Doctrine

• Bay of Pigs Invasion

• Khrushchev Doctrine

• Kennedy Plan

The US policy to halt communism in its tracks.

• Containment

• Gross Domestic Product

• NATO

• Thermonuclear War

US plan to spend billions to rebuild Western Europe after WW 2

• Marshall Plan

• Detente

• Peace with Honor

• Warsaw Pact

USA and it’s defensive allies against the Soviet Union

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• Demilitarized Zone

• Triple Alliance

USSR and it’s defensive allies against the USA

• Warsaw Pact

• NATO

• Bolshevik Treaty

• Treaty of Versailles

A lessening of tensions between the US and USSR

• Detente

• Dentyne

• Desitin

• Diabolic

Communist Leader in Cuba from 1959 and remained its dictatorial leader for nearly 5 decades

• Fidel Castro

• Raul Castro

• Che Guevara

• John F. Kennedy

US President during the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis

• John F. Kennedy

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Lyndon Johnson

• Richard Nixon