Cold War

The state of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II that lasted from 1945-1989 when the Berlin Wall came down.

• World War II

• Cold War

• World War II

• Imperialism

U.S. foreign policy after WWII of trying to keep the Soviet Union from expanding its area of influence and dominance; stop the spread of communism.

• Containment

• Isolationism

• Imperialism

• Globalization

President Truman’s promise to help nations struggling against communist movements, such as those in Greece and Turkey that were so geographically close to the USSR. It worked!

• Eisenhower Doctrine

• Monroe Doctrine

• Washington Doctrine

• Truman Doctrine

An U.S.-sponsored program designed to rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European countries in order to create stable conditions in which democratic institutions could survive in the aftermath of World War II.

• Virginia Plan

• Marshall Plan

• Dawes Plan

• Schleiffen Plan

A military operation (Operation Vittles) from 1948-1949 that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany had cut off its supply routes.

• Berlin Airlift

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

• Berlin Wall

An alliance formed for mutual defense in 1949 under the North Atlantic Treaty, and now made up of 15 nations stretching from Canada to Turkey.

• United Nations (UN)

• NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

• International Monetary Fund (IMF)

The first proxy war during the Cold War fought between 1950 and 1953 resulting in a stalemate, yet the U.S. successfully containing communism North of the 39th parallel.

• Iraqi War

• Persian Gulf War

• Korean War

• Vietnam War

An idea President Eisenhower would assert that if one Asian nation became communist, neighboring countries would as well.

• Domino Theory

• Trickle down theory

• Detente

• Glasnost and Perestroika

This term is used to describe the fear of communism after WWII when a senator accused 205 State Department members of being communist with absolutely no proof.

• Nativism

• First Red Scare

• Mass hysteria

• Second Red Scare (McCarthyism)

In 1961, this was designed to prevent people from escaping to the West from East Berlin.

• Berlin airstrike

• Berlin Airlift

• Berlin blockade

• Berlin Wall