unit 8 vocab quiz

tehran conference

• First major meeting between the Big Three (United States, Britain, Russia) at which they planned the 1944 assault on France and agreed to divide Germany into zones of occupation after the war

• a state of political hostility between countries (USA and USSR) characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare, in particular

• An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation

• A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region

cold war

• a state of political hostility between countries (USA and USSR) characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare, in particular

• First major meeting between the Big Three (United States, Britain, Russia) at which they planned the 1944 assault on France and agreed to divide Germany into zones of occupation after the war

• An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation

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  A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region

united nations

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  A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region

• An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation

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  A U.S. foreign policy adopted by President Harry Truman in the late 1940s, in which the United States tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping weak countries to resist Soviet advances

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

iron curtain

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

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  A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region

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  A U.S. foreign policy adopted by President Harry Truman in the late 1940s, in which the United States tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping weak countries to resist Soviet advances

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  a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender

containment

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  a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender

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  A U.S. foreign policy adopted by President Harry Truman in the late 1940s, in which the United States tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping weak countries to resist Soviet advances

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

truman doctrine

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

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  a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender

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  A U.S. foreign policy adopted by President Harry Truman in the late 1940s, in which the United States tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping weak countries to resist Soviet advances

mutual assured destruction

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  a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender

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  a conflict in which two opposing states "fight" by supporting opposite sides in war, such as the government and rebels in a third state

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

proxy war

• a conflict in which two opposing states "fight" by supporting opposite sides in war, such as the government and rebels in a third state

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  a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender

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

berlin airlift

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

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

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  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

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  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

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  The 1962 confrontation between US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba

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  North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries