| A | B |
|---|
| Harry Truman | not eager to to smooth relations with the Soviets |
| iron curtain | phrase coined by Churchill that described the division between free and communist or repressed societies |
| Marshall Plan | substantial loans that was designed to aid Western nations rebuild after WWII |
| welfare state | consolidation of democracy entailed a general movement toward these ideas |
| Berlin Wall | built by the Soviets in 1961 to keep people from East Germany from fleeing to free West Germany |
| Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | writer exiled to the United States from the Soviet Union after his writings about Siberian prison camps |
| Solidarity | independent labor movement in the Soviet Union |
| Eastern Bloc | The once communist states of Eastern and Central Europe, such as the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and East Germany |
| Berlin Airlift | The American initiative to airlift food and supplies to the isolated West Berlin during the time of the Berlin Wall |
| Total War | War that has no limit in its scope or methods. Used to completely incapacitate the enemy and do away with possible resistance. A popular example is William Sherman’s “March to the Sea” during the American Civil War |
