WH Cold War

The state of diplomatic hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union in the decades following World War II.

• Warm War

• WWIII

• Korean War

• Cold War

During the Cold War, the boundary separating the Communist nations of Eastern Europe from the mostly democratic nations of Western Europe.

• steel curtain
• 38th parallel
• iron curtain
• line of demarcation

A US program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after World War II.

• Marshall Plan
• Truman Doctrine
• New Deal
• New Frontier

Announced by President Harry Truman in 1947, a US policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents.

• Marshall Plan
• Truman Doctrine
• New Deal
• New Frontier

A defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European nations, the United States, and Canada.

• United Nations
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
• World Health Organization
• League of Nations

An international peacekeeping organization founded in 1945 to provide security to the nations of the world.

• League of Nations

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

• Treaty of Versailles

• United Nations

A Vietnamese nationalist that became leader of Communist North Vietnam.

• Ngo Dinh Diem
• Mao Zedong
• Ho Chi Minh
• Kim Il Sung

The idea that if a nation falls under Communist control, nearby nations will also fall under Communist control.

• domino theory

• checkers theory

• iron curtain

• Vietcong

A line of latitude, used following WWII, to divide Communist Nort Korea and democratic South Korea.

• 38th parallel
• 45th parallel
• 29th parallel
• 52nd parallel

A group of Communist guierrillas who, with the help of North Vietnam, fought against the South Vietnamese government in the Vietnam War.

• minute men
• Vietcong
• Vietminh
• soldiers