Cold War Test Review

The alliance of 10 WESTERN European Nations and the United States and Canada

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

• Warsaw Pact

Alliance between Eastern European Countries, such as Bulgaria and Romania, and the USSR

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

• Warsaw Pact

A war that stops short of actual combat, such as US and USSR

• Cold War

• Hot War

• Intermediate War

• Armistice

US assistance program that provided food, machines, and other materials to help European countries rebuild after WWII

• The Truman Doctrine

• The Marshall Plan

• The Domino Theory

• Apartheid

US pledge to support any country that rejected communism, made by President Truman

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• Domino Theory

• Apartheid

US foreign policy to stop the spread of communism throughout the world

• The Cold War

• The Marshall Plan

• The Iron Curtain

• Containment

Term used to describe the Divide between Western Capitalism and Eastern Communism, was not literal

• The Marshall Plan

• The Truman Doctrine

• The Iron Curtain

• Apartheid

Related to Containment, the theory that if one country fell to communism, they all would

• The Marshall Plan

• The Truman Doctrine

• The Iron Curtain

• The Domino Theory

American general who commanded United Nations troops in Korea, was dismissed for wanting to nuke China

• General Douglas McArthur

• General Patton

• General Eisenhower

Crisis where USSR tried to put nukes on Cuba, causing international concern and almost starting WW3

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• The Panama Missile Crisis

• Detente

• Apartheid