Cold War Vocabulary pt.1

A state of hostilities that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union that lasted from 1945- 1991.

• containment

• cold war

• communism

• red scare

U.S. foreign policy that focused on stopping the spread of communism.

• Berlin Wall

• Communism

• Containment

• Cold War

Race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to build up weapons.

• Arms Race

• Space Race

• Foot Race

• Three legged race

What is the term used to describe the invisible line that separated communist Eastern Europe from democratic Western Europe?

• Berlin Wall

• Iron Curtain

• No Man's Land

• Iron Wall

Trying to achieve a positive outcome by pushing the events to a dangerous point.

• Hawks

• Doves

• Brinksmanship

• Watergate

June 1948-May 1949 The US airlift of food, water and medicine to the citizens of West Berlin, sustaining two million people.

• Bay of Pigs

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• Tet Offensive

• Berlin Airlift

Known as the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, and signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven Easter Bloc satellite states of central and eastern Europe in May 1955.

• Iron Curtain

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

• Warsaw Pact

1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization 

international alliance;

• NATO

• United Nations

• HUAC

• McCarthyism

1947 American foreign policy

-  by President Harry Truman that 

- economic and military aid to the governments of Turkey and Greece

- included containment 

• Iron Curtain

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

• Warsaw Pact

MAD

• US anger against Soviet intervention in Cuba
• Mutually assured destruction - if any country begins a nuclear war, all will be destroyed
• Military Assisted Destruction - the US military could take out any threat of nuclear war
• a policy to diffuse the Soviet's anger toward the US