Cold War

A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years. 1945-1989

• Cold War

• Iron Curtain

• Containment

• Marshall Plan

Term used by Churchill in 1946 to describe the growing East-West divide in postwar Europe between communist and democratic nations

• Cold War

• Iron Curtain

• Containment

• Marshall Plan

1947, President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology, mainly helped Greece and Turkey

• Truman Doctrine

• Containment

• Marshall Plan

• Proxy War

A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Western Europe (1948-1952)

• Truman Doctrine

• Containment

• Marshall Plan

• Proxy War

A war in which the powers in conflict use third parties as substitutes instead of fighting each other directly (For example Korea and Vietnam)

• Truman Doctrine

• Containment

• Marshall Plan

• Proxy War

A U.S. foreign policy adopted by President Truman in the late 1940s, in which the United States tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping weak countries to resist Soviet advances

• Truman Doctrine

• Containment

• Marshall Plan

• Proxy War

President at the beginning of the Cold War

• President Harry Truman

• President George HW Bush

• President Ronald Reagan

• President Barack Obama

President at the end of the Cold War

• President Harry Truman

• President George HW Bush

• President Ronald Reagan

• President Barack Obama

Leader of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the Cold War

• Josef Stalin

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Boris Yeltsin

• Vladimir Putin

Leader of the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War

• Josef Stalin

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Boris Yeltsin

• Vladimir Putin