The Cold War

U.S. President during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba.

The massive US aid package ($$) to rebuild Western Europe after WWII.

Cold War competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union to build up their armed forces and weapons.

Communist leader of North Vietnam; used guerrilla warfare to fight anti-communist, American-funded attacks

Chinese Communist program meant to boost farm and industrial output that failed badly

US policy of trying to contain the spread of communism

the Cold War alliance between the Soviet Union and seven Eastern European nations

• Warsaw Pact

• Khmer Rouge

• Marshall Plan

• NATO

Muslim religious warriors

• superpower

• suburbanization

• Mujahadin

• interdependence

the total value of all goods and services produced in a nation within a particular year

• welfare state

• collectivization

• Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

• NATO