| A | B |
|---|
| Cold War | hostility/trouble between US and USSR in the decades following WWII (communist/non-communist nations) |
| Marshall Plan | US sends $$$ to help re-build Western Europe |
| NATO | organization set up to stop the spread of communism |
| Warsaw Pact | agreement between USSR and Eastern European nations to protect eachother in the case of an attack |
| Korean War | North Korea (communist) vs. South Korea (non communist); ended in armistice and original borders |
| democracy | citizens have legislative, judicial and executive powers based on majority rule |
| capitalism | economic system based on private ownership..promotes free market regulated by supply and demand |
| Cuban Missle Crisis | Castro allowed USSR to use nuclear missle bases in Cuba; US said to remove missles; they were removed |
| perestroika | opening up of Russia for more free enterprise |
| Berlin Wall | built in 1961 to divide soviet controlled E. Berlin from democratic W. Berlin |
| Iron Curtain | how Churchill described USSR's isolation of Eastern Europe from the rest of the world |
| communism | totalitarian system of government |
| Satellite nation | nations conquered by Soviet nations to separate communist nations from Western Europe |
