| A | B |
|---|
| United Nations | both the US and USSR joined this group after WWII |
| Harry Truman | he arranged for about $600 million in aid to be sent to postwar Turkey and Greece |
| NATO | this defensive military alliance was the first military alliance that the US ever entered during peacetime |
| Marshall Plan | this aid package was directed "not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos" |
| Cold War | this term refers to the indirect but hostile conflict between the US and the USSR that began at the end of WWII |
| Menachem Begin | in 1978, this Israeli prime minister signed the Camp David Accords and agreed to return the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt |
| Anwar Sadat | this Egyptian president signed the Camp David Accords and reconized Israel as a legitimate state, enraging many Arabs |
| Fidel Castro | he accepted Soviet aid for Cuba |
| Cuba | Fidel Castro is the communist dictator of this country |
| Nikita Khrushchev | he squared off against Kennedy during the Berlin crisis |
| Tonkin Gulf Resolution | this granted the US president broad military powers in Vietnam |
| domino theory | this is based on the idea that countries on the brink of communism were waiting to fall one after the other |
| Ho Chi Minh | he led the Indochinese Communist Party and fough French, Japanese, and US forces for the independence of Vietnam |
| Vietcong | this group, formed by Vietnamese Communists and other nationalist groups in 1941, declared its single goal to be independence from foreign rule |
| Iraq | this nation invaded Kuwait in 1990 which led to Desert Storm |
| USSR | Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as the president of this nation |
| Soviet Union | this nation was the one most directly affected by the domestic policies known as glasnost and perestroika |
| napalm | to expose Vietcong tunnels and hideouts, US planes dropped this gasoline-based bomb that set fire to the jungles of Vietnam |
| Iron Curtain | described the division between communist and capitalist countries |
| containment | to prevent expansion; hold in place |
| Cold War | Struggle between Soviets and U.S. for influence in the world |
| McCarthyism | an attack on someone's loyalty without proof |
| Marshall Plan | Gave money to European countries to rebuild after WWII |
| Berlin Airlift | Planes dropped goods into Berlin when blockade was set up by Soviet Union |
| NATO | Organization with US, Canada & others to help if attacked |
| Senator Joseph McCarthy | Accused many Americans of helping communists with little/no proof |
| NATO | organization set up to stop the spread of communism |
| Korean War | North Korea (communist) vs. South Korea (non communist); ended in armistice and original borders |
| 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 |
| Glasnost | USSR is more open/honest with western nations with less restaints on Russian people |
| Berlin Airlift | the dropping of supplies(by air) into Berlin while the Soviets tried to block-off the city |
| 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 |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | USSR leader from 1985-91; contributed to the downfall of communism |
| 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 |
| Cuban Missle Crisis | Castro allowed USSR to use nuclear missle bases in Cuba; US said to remove missles; they were removed |
| Medicare | health benefits for the elderly |
| Medicaid | health benefits for the poor |
| Khrushchev | Soviet leader who squared off against JFK during the Cuban crisis |
| Brown v Board of Education | segregation in schools unconstitutional-overthrew Plessy v. Ferguson |
| TET Offensive | marked a major shift in American attitudes during the war. |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | President who inherited the Vietnam War & supported its escalation; promoted Great Society |
| Led to U.S. involvement in WWII | Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
| D-Day | Code name for the Allied invasion of Europe |
| Brown v. Board of Education | Supreme court ruling to get rid of segregation |
| Baby Boom | rapid increase in birth rate in 50s & 60s |
