Unit 8 Terms

These are wars in which the US and Soviet Union backed opposing sides in regional conflicts, escalating violence and levels of destruction.

• Cold Wars

• Proxy Wars

• Satellite States

• Domino Theory

This was Churchill's term for the Cold War division between Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe and US-dominated Western Europe.

• Containment

• Proxy Wars

• Détente

• Iron Curtain

These were Eastern European states under the control of the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

• Warsaw Pact

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

• Satellite States

• Metropole

This was the American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world.

• Détente

• Containment

• Marshall Plan

• Yalta Conference

This was a US program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Western Europe after WWII.

• COMECON

• Containment

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

This was a doctrine of military strategy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two opposing sides would effectively result in the destruction of both the attacker and the defender.

• Truman Doctrine

• Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)

• Domino Theory

• Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

This is a group of states which were not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc (US or Soviets) during the Cold War.

• Satellite States

• Warsaw Pact

• Non-Aligned Movement

• Perestroika

This was an alliance created by the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations that was meant to counter NATO.

• Warsaw Pact

• COMECON

• Marshall Plan

• Sputnik

This was the communist leader of North Vietnam.

• Mao Zedong

• Ho Chi Minh

• Pol Pot

• Fidel Castro

This was the communist dictator of Cuba who defended against the failed US invasion of the Bay of Pigs.

• Mao Zedong

• Gamal Abdel Nasser

• Kwame Nkrumah

• Fidel Castro