Unit 8_Vocab

policy created by George F. Kennan that stated the U.S. needed to "contain" or hold back communism

• containment

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

A warring period when the U.S. and the Soviet Union tried to gain influence in the world by using all possible methods short of a total war

• Cold War

• WWII

• WWi

Policy presented by President Truman in 1947 stating that the U.S. would help any nation threatened by a communist takeover

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

• Containment

An organization made of democratic or freely elected governments in the North Atlantic.

• Warsaw Pact

• NATO

• Axis Powers

The alliance system that was formed in response to NATO. This alliance system was made up of countries with Communist countries in Eastern Europe

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• Allied Powers

A race between the Soviet Union and the United States to build more nuclear missiles and bombers

• Space Race

• Nuclear Arms Race

• Geneva Accords

The ________________________ is not a real curtain. It is the term for the invisible line that divided European nations that were democratic and communist.

• Berlin Wall

• Iron Curtain

• Winston Churchill

The United States and the Soviet Union competed with one another to be the first to conquer outerspace.

• Nuclear Arms Race

• Space Race

• this never happened

fear of communism

• Containment

• Red Scare

• Communism

A proxy war fought in Vietnam over the fear of the spread of communism.

• Korean War

• Vietnam War

• Cold War