| A | B |
|---|
| Containment | an effort to block the Soviets' attempts to spread their influence |
| NATO | Member countries promised that an attack on one would be regarded as an attack on all |
| McCarthyism | A U.S. senator's attacks on suspected communists in the early 1950's became known as... |
| Brinkmanship | The willingness to go to the edge of war |
| NikitaKhrushchev | Head of the Communist Party in 1965 |
| ColdWar | The state of hostility short of direct military confrontation that developed between the U.S. and USSR |
| TrumanDoctrine | The U.S. should support free countries throughout the world who are threatened by Communism |
| Sputnik | The first unmanned artificial satellite to orbit Earth |
| KoreanWar | The first U.S. military engagement caused by the Cold War |
| BerlinAirlift | Over 277,000 flights carried supplies to break a Communist blockade |
