| A | B |
|---|
| 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 |
| Warsaw Pact | agreement between USSR and Eastern European nations to protect eachother in the case of an attack |
| space race | competition between USSR and US regarding advancement of space program |
| Korean War | North Korea (communist) vs. South Korea (non communist); ended in armistice and original borders |
| democracy | citizens have legislative, judicial and executive powers based on majority rule |
| capitalism | economic system based on private ownership..promotes free market regulated by supply and demand |
| Cuban Missle Crisis | Castro allowed USSR to use nuclear missle bases in Cuba; US said to remove missles; they were removed |
| detente | policy aimed at relaxing tension between USSR and US |
| 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 |
| sputnik | soviet satellite put into orbit in 1957 (1st man-made satellite) |
| communism | totalitarian system of government |
| command economy | an economic system controlled by strong, centralized gov't. |
| Satellite nation | nations conquered by Soviet nations to separate communist nations from Western Europe |
