Cold War Vocabulary

Created in 1949 under U.S. leadership to create an alliance between most of the Western powers (including Canada) in defense against possible Soviet aggression

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• SEATO

• SOA

Alliance formed by the Soviet Union and other communist countries in Eastern Europe

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• SEATO

• SAO

Where the US prevented the spread of Communism by establishing the Truman Doctrine to aid nations threatened by communism.

• Congealment

• Concentment

• Concealment

• Containment

a totalitarian system of government in which a single authoritarian party controls state-owned means of production

• Concealment

• Containment

• Communism

• Capitalism

lessening of military and diplomatic tensions between countries

• Detente

• Dentension

• Dictator

• Diplomat

looked to curtail the production and number of nuclear arms

• Strategic Arms Limitations Talks

• Nuclear Arms Deal

• Nuclear Detention

• Nuclear Arms Systems Detesting

foreign policy principle of the 1950s and the 1960s stating that if one country fell to communism, neighboring countries would also fall

• Detente

• Nuclear Theory

• Domino Theory

• Communist Theory

After WWII, Winston Churchill coined the phrase to describe the division between free and Communist societies that was occurring in Europe

• Berlin Wall

• Iron Curtain

• Continental Divide

• Borders Barrier

was fought from 1950 to 1953. The North was supported by the USSR and later the People's Republic of China while the South was supported by U.S. and a small United Nations force. The war ended in stalemate, and the country is still divided into North and South today.

• Vietnam War

• Cambodian War

• Japan War

• Korean War

 long military conflict (1954-1975) between the South, supported by United States forces, and the Communist North. The war resulted in a Northern victory and unification of the country under Communist

• Vietnam War

• Cambodian War

• Japan War

• Korean War