Cold War Vocabulary Review

Competition between the US and USSR to prove who was more advanced scientifically and mathematically (THINK Sputnik & Moon Landing)

• space race

• iron curtain

• Détente

• arm's race

warming up between the US and USSR; US President Richard Nixon wanted to improve the relationship between the US and USSR and limit number of nuclear weapons each side had (THINK SALT)

• space race

• iron curtain

• Détente

• arm's race

last dictator of the Soviet Union, ends Communism in the USSR and ends the Cold War

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• JFK

• Harry Truman

• Winston Churchill

Gorbachev’s attempt at allowing DEMOCRACY or political freedom in the USSR (literally means openness)

• Iron Curtain

• Sputnik

• Glasnot

• Marshall Plan

Created by USSR, 1st successful satellite to orbit the world in 1957…made the US fearful they were losing the Space Race

• Communism

• Iron Curtain

• Glasnot

• Sputnik

phrase coined by Winston Churchill, the imaginary line dividing Eastern (Communist) and Western (Democratic) Europe during the Cold War

• Communism

• Iron Curtain

• Glasnot

• Sputnik

US Cold War Alliance made up of US, Canada, and 12 other WESTERN European nations

• NATO

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

• Brinkmanship

US plan to spend $13.15 billion to rebuild WESTERN Europe after WWII and prevent the spread of communism

• NATO

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

• Brinkmanship

Named after US President Truman, $400 million given to Greece and Turkey to stop the spread of communism (in return US allowed to place NUKES in Turkey)

• NATO

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

• Brinkmanship

the threat of going to nuclear war (ex. Cuban Missile Crisis)

• NATO

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

• Brinkmanship