| A | B |
|---|
| Soviet Union | totalitarian government with a communist economic system |
| United Nations | created at the end of WWII as a body for the nations of the world to try to prevent furture global wars |
| East Germany | dominated by the Soviet Union and did not adapt democrative institutions |
| Marshall Plan | provided massive financial aid to rebuild European economies and prevent the spread of communism |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization | formed as a defensive alliance among the U.S. and W. European countries to prevent a Soviet invasion of W. Europe |
| Truman Doctrine | "a containment of communism" was to keep Communism from spreading and to resist communist aggression |
| Cold War | lasted from end of WWII to the collapse of the USSR in 1989 |
| Berlin airlift | Attempt to break a blockade placed on a country |
| West Germany | became democratic and resumed self-government after a few years of American, British and French occupation |
| Warsaw Pact | Soviet allies in Eastern Europe formed this organization that was in power for 50 years |
| China | the U.S. under President Nixon exploited the communist rivalry between the Chinese and the Soviets |
| massive retaliation | a policy developed by U.S. President Eisenhower to |
| glasnost | openness |
| perestroika | economic restructuring |
| Mikail Gorbachev | leader of the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War |
