| A | B |
|---|
| containment | to keep communism in places it already exists and prevent it from spreading |
| Truman Doctrine | gave economic aid to Greece and Turkey to help them fight communism |
| Marshall Plan | gave economic aid to western European countries to help them fight communism |
| (NATO) North Atlantic Treaty Organization | military alliance made up of U.S. and western European countries |
| Warsaw Pact | military alliance made up of the Soviet Union and other countries |
| red scare | intense fear of communism |
| the Rosenbergs, Alger Hiss | accused of being communist spies |
| Joseph McCarthy | stirred a "witch hunt" by making false accusations |
| Sputnik | first launched missile from Soviet Union |
| duck and cover, bomb shelters | results of threats of Soviet Union attacks |
| massive retaliation | build up of nuclear weapons |
| Korean | divided at 38th parallel line |
| North Korea | communist |
| South Korea | democratic |
| North Vietnam | communist |
| South Vietnam | democratic |
| vietnamization | increase south vietnamese troops, withdraw American troops, |
| Fidel Castro | leader of communist Cuba |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | brink of war between U.S. and Soviet Union |
| John F. Kennedy | "ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country" |
| Vietnam War veterans | treated with hostility |
| communism collaspes | economic problems, military deters, reforms of Gorbachev |
| Ronald Reagan | "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" |
| John Kennedy | “The United States will...Pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty....” |
| after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 | America lost its confidence and began a period of internal division or strife |
| the Vietnam War | caused division in the United States people became very divided |
| indifference and hostility | Americans greet the returning veterans from the Vietnam War |
| democracy prevailed over communism | as a result of the military to defend freedom, the ideals of democracy |
| “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” | President Ronald Reagan challenged the moral legitimacy of the Soviet Union when he said |
| Openness and economic restructuring | “Glasnost” and “Perestroika”were two of Soviet leader Gorbachev’s reform policies |
| events of the Cold War | Korean War, Vietnam War, Cuban Missile Crisis |
