The Early Cold War, Module 8.1

The political, economic, and military conflict, short of direct war on the battlefield, between the United States and the Soviet Union between 1945 and 1991.

• Cold War

• Hot War

• World War II

• Proxy War

Belief that the Soviet Union desired the spread of communism throughout the world. To prevent this spread U.S. diplomat George Kennan advocated a strict policy of containing communism where it already existed and preventing its spread.

• Containment

• Red Scare

• Pro-Communist Policy

• Anti-Communist Policy

Term coined by Churchill that described the ideological and political divide between the Communist Soviet Union and the non-Communist western world.

• Iron Curtain

• Silver Curtain

• European Wall

• Berlin Wall

U.S. pledge to contain the expansion of communism around the world. Based on the idea of containment, this became the cornerstone of American foreign policy throughout the Cold War.

• Truman Doctorine

• Monroe Doctorine

• Containment

• Truman Creed

Post World War II European economic aid package developed by Secretaru of State George Marshall. The plan helped rebuild Western Europe and served American political and economic interests in the process.

• Marshall Plan

• Marshall Aid

• Truman Doctrine

• Berlin Airlift

The mass-scale transport of food and suplies to West Berlin by U.S. and British government air forces during the Soviet blockade of Berlin from 1948 to 1949.

• Berlin Airlift

• British Airlift

• U.S. Airforces

• NATO Airlift

Cold War military alliance intended to enhance the collective security of the United States and Western Europe.

• NATO

• United Nations

• European Union

• Warsaw Pact

Russian military alliance with seven satellite nations in response to U.S. Marshall Plan and establishment of Nato

• NATO

• United Nations

• European Union

• Warsaw Pact

April 1950 National Security Council document that advocated the intensification of the policy of containment both at home and abroad.

• NSC-68

• NSC-86

• Containment

• Isolationism

Conflict fought between the northern Communist, Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the United Nations-backed southern Republic of Korea from 1950 to 1953

• Korean War

• Korean Battle

• Vietnam War

• South-East Asian Theater of WW2