| A | B |
|---|
| Mc Carthyism | US anti Communist movement in the early 1950's |
| Sputnik | Soviet Space flight first in world history |
| NATO | Pro US alliance with Western European nations |
| Warsaw Pact | Pro Soviet Union Eastern European Nations |
| Marshall Plan | 10 Billion dollars in US aid to Western Europe (France and Italy) |
| Truman Doctrin | 800 Million and support to Greece and Turkey against Communism |
| Korean War | First major Cold War conflict in the 1950's which included Communist Chinese involvement and General McCarthur's Firing by Truman |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | President John F. Kennedy and US threatened invasion if Soviets nukes are not removed for Turkish weapons removal |
| SEATO | Pro US alliance in Pacific and Aisa |
| West Germany | Pro US supported and strong Economic capitalist and democratic nation |
| East Germany | Pro Soviet Communist sattelite of the Soviet Union |
| Japan | Pro US and strong economic capitalist and democratic Aisan Nation for the Cold War |
| Vietnam War | A highly unpopular war with US citizens that led to mass protests and eventual pullout of US forces in the mid 1970's during Nixon's second term |
| Bay of Pigs | Highly unsuccessful attempt of Cuban refugees in exile that wanted to overthrow Castro and the Communists government in Cuba |
| Spy network | Soviet Union was very successful in stealing US technology |
| Berlin Airlift | The US sent in waves of supplies to support their Pro Democratic City in East Germany when its roads were closed off by Stalin |
| United Nations | A peace organization centered in Manhattan after World War 2 |
| Security Council | 5 core member organization that all must agree for UN troops to be deployed in any part of the World US, England, France, Soviet Union and (Free China- Tawain until 1977) |
| Nuclear Family | A unit set up as the model for 1950's -Father works - Mother stays home - Children go to school and learn American Values |
| Parastroika | A program initiated by M. Gorbachev which resulted in the crumblin of the Soviet Economy and ending the Cold War |
| Soviet Union | The Communist Union of Peasants and Factory Workers and Chief US rival from 1946-1989 |
| Domino Theory | If one nation in an area falls to Communism the rest in an area will fall |
