| A | B |
|---|
| United Nations | a peace organization created by the Allied Powers |
| Cold War | a competition and struggle for for peace between democratic United States and communist Soviet Union |
| U.S.Containment Policy | trying to prevent the spread of communism |
| Truman Doctrine | U.S. would send money to European countries to prevent countries from falling to communism |
| The Marshall Plan | Sixteen European countries received money to help rebuild Western Europe and help provide economic and political stability. |
| Both the USSR and the US emerge as world_______after WWII | superpowers |
| free world | made up of countries with non-communist governments |
| the East | the Soviet Union, China, and other communist countries of Eastern Europe and Asia |
| the West | the U.S., Great Britain, France and other democratic nations |
| nonaligned nations | countries remaining neutral in the Cold War- India, Sweden, Switzerland, and various African and Asian nations |
| arms race | competition between communist and Free World nations--especially the Soviet Union and the U.S.-- to develop powerful new weapons |
| Iron Curtain | the Soviet Union's tight control over travel and communication between Soviet dominated Eastern Europe and the Free World |
| limited war | a small scale war without nuclear weapons that involves just one area of the world |
| Space Race | the rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union for superiority in space exploration and communication |
| satellites | the countries of Eastern Europe that came under control of the Soviet Union after WWII |
| propaganda | ideas spread by one side in the Cold War to support its own policies or to criticize the other side's actions or beliefs |
| Radio Free Euroope | broadcasts supporting democratic principles and ideals transmitted to people living behind the Iron Curtain |
| Peace Corps | American volunteers who help disadvantaged people in underdeveloped countries of the world |
| detente | a time of improved relations between the US and the Soviet Union during the 1970's |
| peaceful coexistence | the two sides in the Cold War decide to cooperate in such areas as space, trade, education and science |
