| A | B |
|---|
| United Nations (UN) | organization designed to be a forum to prevent war and solve international problems, founded in 1945 |
| satellite nations | countries dominated by the Soviet Union |
| containment | Truman's policy of preventing communist expansion into other countries |
| iron curtain | isolation of eastern European countries from western democracies |
| Cold War | rivalry between the United States and the USSR that did not erupt into actual war |
| Truman Doctrine | committed the United States to aid free peoples everywhere threatened by communism |
| Marshall Plan | economic aid to Europe after WWII; for them to rebuild their countries |
| Berlin airlift | Britsh and American effort to resupply Berlin when the Soviets tried to blockade it |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | Western European and American defensive alliance formed in 1949 |
| Berlin Wall | separated Eastern and Western Berlin |
