Post WWII Vocabulary Review

US President Harry S Truman's military and financial support for countries that rejected communism.

• Truman Doctrine

• Truman Plan

• Truman Pact

• Truman Theory

Plan proposed by George Marshall (US Secretary of State) to give aid to needy European countries trying to rebuild after WWII.

• Marshall Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• Marshall Theory

• Marshall Pact

A military treaty and association of European countries, formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania.

• Marshall Plan

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• UN

Military alliance between 29 different countries in Europe and North America.

• Warsaw Pact

• Marshall Plan

• NATO

• UN

American foreign policy during the Cold War that focused on stopping the spread of Communism around the world.

• Marshall Plan

• Cold War

• Containment Policy

• Truman Policy

A conflict between the USA and the Soviet Union in which neither nation directly confronted teh other on the battlefield.

• Hot War

• WWII

• WWI

• Cold War

Fears of communists in the United States starting after the Russian Revolution.

• Marshall Plan

• Domino Theory

• Red Scare

• Cold War

The theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries.

• Truman Theory

• Domino Theory

• Brinmanship

• Containment Theory

The willingness to go to the edge of war.

• Arms Race

• Space Race

• Brinkmanship

• Containment

Wars fought between other countries but with each side getting support from a different superpower.

• Cold War

• Confusing Wars

• Propaganda Wars

• Proxy Wars