Cold War Vocabulary

Stated the US will provide economic aid to struggling nations to prevent the spread of communism

• Truman Doctrine

• Satellite States

• Berlin Airlift

• McCarthyism

United States and Great Britain’s response to the blockade of Berlin by the Soviet Union. Airlifted food and supplies into West Berlin

• Berlin Wall

• Glastnost

• Berlin Airlift

• Bay of Pigs

Policy to prevent the spread of communism

• Perestroika

• Containment

• Marshall Plan

• McCarthyism

Conflict between Communist North Korea (aided by the USSR) and Democratic South Korea (aided by the US and UN)

• Korean War

• Vietnam War

• Cold War

• Iron Curtain

Period of time during the 1950s when Americans were afraid of communism

• Perestroika

• McCarthyism

• Cold War

• Sputnik

formal military alliance to guard against a Soviet attack

• NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

• Glasnost

• Domino Theory

• Iron Curtain

Belief that if one nation fell to communism, its neighbors would fall to communism

• McCarthyism

• Glasnost

• Marshall Plan

• Domino Theory

Failed invasion of Cuba to remove Fidel Castro, a communist dictator

• Bay of Pigs

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Nuclear Arms Race

• Berlin Airlift

First satellite launched into space, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957

• Perestroika

• Glasnost

• Sputnik

• Domino Theory

15 foot concrete wall that surrounded West Berlin to prevent people from leaving East Berlin

• Berlin Wall

• Iron Curtain

• Berlin Airlift

• Satellite States