Cold War

Era in history between the democratic US and communist Soviet Union - decades of tense threats and buildup of nuclear weapons.

• WWII

• Cold War

• Containment

• Domino Theory

International peacekeeping organization

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• United Nations

• League of Nations

US Cold War policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world, keep communism in its current borders!

• containment

• proliferation

• neutrality

• isolationism

Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West.

• domino theory

• containment

• blacklist

• Iron Curtain

Countries dominated by the Soviet Union during the Cold War

• red countries

• satellite nations

• Moscow militia

• Stalin´s bloc

Chinese communist leader, his policies resulted in the deaths of 45 million Chinese!

• Ho Chi Minh

• Ngo Dinh Diem

• Mao Zedong

• Kim Il Sung

A United States program of economic aid, $13 billion for the reconstruction of Europe after WWII.

• Marshall Plan

• USA Patriot Act

• NATO

• Berlin Airlift

U.S. policy vowing to support any nation threatened by Communism. (Greece and Turkey)

• Marshall Plan

• UN

• NATO

• Truman Doctrine

line of latitude that separates communist North Korea and democratic South Korea

• 17th parallel

• Equator

• 38th parallel

• Prime Meridian

War from 1950-1953, communist North tried to spread communism to a democratic South, US and UN helped defend - successful containment

• Korean War

• Vietnam War

• WWII

• War of 1812