Unit 7 Cold War Vocab

The policy made by US President Truman in 1947 that made it clear that Americans would resist Soviet expansion in Europe or elsewhere in the world.

• Domino Theory

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• Warsaw Pact

The military alliance for a mutual defense between the U.S., Canada, and Western Nations.

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (N.A.T.O.)

• Iron Curtain

• Warsaw Pact

• Détente

A competition between superpowers to develop new, more deadly nuclear and conventional weapons.

• Glasnost

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Marshall Plan

• Arms Race

The Cold War policy of limiting the spread of communism.

• Solidarity

• Truman Doctrine

• Containment

• Blockade

The imaginary line through Europe that divided the democracies of the West from the communist countries of the East.

• Domino Theory

• Satellite

• Iron Curtain

• Berlin Wall

A nation strong enough to influence the acts and policies of other nations.

• Détente

• Cold War

• Superpower

• Perestroika

The food and economic aid package launched by the United States to help European countries rebuild after World War II.

• Marshall Plan

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (N.A.T.O.)

• Détente

• Perestroika

The state of tension and hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union after 1945 without large scale armed conflict between the major powers

• Iron Curtain

• Arms Race

• Cold War

• Cuban Missile Crisis

Belief that if one nation fell to communism, neighboring nations would also fall.

• Domino Theory

• Containment

• Perestroika

• Marshall Plan

The leader of the communist revolution in Cuba during the 1950’s, who became an anti-American dictator. 

• Leonid Brezhnev

• Fidel Castro

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Nikita Khrushchev