The Cold War

President after FDR through the end of World War II

• Harry S. Truman

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Jimmy Carter

• Richard Nixon

The term for nations in eastern Europe that were aligned with or under the influence and pressure of the Soviet Union

• dependent nations

• side nations

• satellite nations

• related nations

an imaginary barrier that split Europe into a non-communist west and a communist east

• Containmant

• The Marshall Plan

• Satellite nations

• The Iron Curtain

five decades-long global confrontation between the Soviet Union and the U.S.

• The Cold War

• The Iron Curtain

• The Arms Race

• Mutually assured destruction

The attempt to prevent the further spread of communism

• The Truman Doctrine

• containment

• The Marshall Plan

• The Berlin Airlift

The United States' policy to support nations threatened by communism

• The Marshall Plan

• The Iron Curtain

• The Satellite Nation

• The Truman Doctrine

Provided U.S. aid to Europe by sending food, lending money for infrastructure, and ensured low tariffs for U.S. trade.

• The Iron Curtain

• The Truman Doctrine

• The Marshall Plan

• containment

The operation that flew food and supplies into West Germany during a Soviet Union blockade

• The Berlin Airlift

• The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

• The Cold War

• The Iron Curtain

Established in 1949, member nations agreed that an armed attack on one shall be considered an attack on all.

• Arms Race

• Cold War

• United Nations

• NATO

Leader of the Nationalist Chinese government before it fell to communism

• Mao Zedong

• Ho Chi Mihn

• Chiang Kai-shek

• Kim Jong-un