Cold War Visual Vocabulary

Stalin blocked all land and water travel into West Berlin to force the United States to give up West Berlin.

• Berlin Airlift

• Berlin Blockade

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

United States and Britain flew supplies over the Soviet’s blockade of West Berlin from 1948-1949

• Berlin Blockade

• Berlin Airlift

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

Struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union over political differences from 1945 to 1991

• Containment

• Marshall Plan

• NATO

• Cold War

Phrase used to describe Europe’s division into democratic Western Europe and communist Eastern Europe

• Iron Curtain

• Berlin Blockade

• Cold War

• Satellite Nations

Leader of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the Cold War who wanted to spread communism

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Harry Truman

• Jospeh Stalin

• Winston Churchill

U.S. financial aid program that would send food, fuel, and other materials to needy European nations

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• Berlin Airlift

• Satellite Nations

Defensive military alliance of 12 democratic nations formed in 1949 and led by the United States

• Warsaw Pact

• Iron Curtain

• NATO

• Satellite Nations

Leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953

• Jospeh Stalin

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Winston Churchill

• Harry Truman

Meeting in July, 1945 where the Soviets refused to have free elections in Eastern European nations

• Potsdam Conference

• Berlin Blockade

• Satellite Nations

• Iron Curtain

7 nations in Eastern Europe that were taken over and controlled by the Soviet Union after World War Two

• Berlin Blockade

• Satellite Nations

• Warsaw Pact

• Potsdam Conference