Chapter 12 The Cold War

Both the United States and the Soviet Union rushed to build more and more weapons.

• arms race

• hydrogen bomb

• brinkmanship

• baby boom

The struggle for global power between the United States and the Soviet Union

• Cold War

• United Nations

• Word War II

• World War I

The world's first artifical satellite

• Sputnik

• brinkmanship

• Arm Race

• propaganda

Winconsin senator who contributed to fears in the early 1950's by charging that Communtists were working inside the State Department.

• Edward R. Murrow

• Joseph McCarthy

• Douglas MacArthur

• Mao Zedong

The ​ (a)   was built in 1961 to keep East Berlin citizens from escaping to West Berlin. It was later torn down in ​ (b)   .

• Berlin Wall

• 1989

• Golden Gate Bridge

• 1991

• 1990

• 1961

• Great Wall of C

The United States joined nine Western European countries, along with Iceland and Canada to form

• NATO

• Bill of Rights

• Potsdam Conference

• Truman Doctrine

Western Europe received more than $13 billion in U.S. loans and grants for European economic recovery between 1948 and 1952

• containment

• United Nation

• Marshall Plan

• Cold War

This policy of providing aid to help foreign countries fight communism became known as

• Marshall Plan

• United Nations

• Truman Doctrine

• Cold War

Dividing lines between North and South Korea

• China

• Soviet Union

• 38th parallel

• Jackson

Preventing the Soviet Union from expanding its influence around the world

• containment

• Cold War

• United Nations

• Truman Doctrine