| A | B |
|---|
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization; western democratic nations join together against Communism |
| containment doctrine | how President Truman planned to prevent the spread of Communism |
| Marshall plan | when Truman offered economic aid to the democratic countries of wetsern Europe |
| Cold War | war between Russia and America to determine who would be mopre powerful after World War II |
| Nuclear Arms Race | competition forr military advantage |
| Berlin wall | divided Germany into East and West Germany |
| Soviet Union | Russian and her allies(countries of eastern Europe who were conquered by Russia). |
| Cuban missile crisis | controversy over Russian based missiles in Cuba |
| U.S.S.R. | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; another name for the Soviet Union |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | brought an end to the Sovietu Union and redormed his nation economically by creating the policies perestroika and glastnost |
