Cold War

President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology

• Bay of Pigs

• Truman Doctrine

• Warsaw Pact

• Vietnam War

A plan that the US came up with to revive war-torn economies of Europe. This plan offered $13 billion in aid to western and Southern Europe.

• Marshall Plan

• Arms Race

• Berlin Wall

• Bay of Pigs

airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin

• Marshall Plan

• Warsaw Pact

• Bay of pigs

• Berlin Airlift

Military alliance created in 1949 made up of 12 non-Communist countries including the United States, France, UK, Italy, Norway, Belgium, Canada, that support each other if attacked.

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• Berlin Wall

• UN

Cold war competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union to build up their armed forces and weapons

• Berlin Wall

• Arms Race

• Vietnam War

• Cuban Missile Crisis

The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.

• Cold War

• Vietnam War

• Korean War

• Arms Race

An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• NATO

• UN

• United States

An unsuccessful invasion of Cuba in 1961, which was sponsored by the United States. Its purpose was to overthrow Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

• Bay of Pigs

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Arms Race

• Berlin Airlift

1962 crisis that arose between the United States and the Soviet Union over a Soviet attempt to deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba

• Bay of Pigs

• Berlin Wall

• Iron Curtain

• Cuban Missile Crisis

A prolonged war (1954-1975) between the communist armies of North Vietnam who were supported by the Chinese and the non-communist armies of South Vietnam who were supported by the United States.

• Vietnam War

• Korean War

• Arms Race

• Cuban Missile Crisis