| A | B |
|---|
| Marshall Plan | billions of dollars in financial aid to help rebuild Europe |
| Communism | System of gov't in which all land, industries and businesses are owned by the government |
| Democracy | Citizens hold the power by voting for their leaders |
| East Germany | Controlled by Soviet Union, was communist |
| West Germany | Occupied by U.S. Britain & France, became democratic |
| Policy of containment | to stop the spread of communism |
| Truman Doctrine | U.S. provided money, equipment & military force to any country threatened by communism |
| NATO | Alliance of free, democratic western Europe nations + U.S. & Canada |
| Warsaw Pact | Alliance of communists states of eastern and central Europe |
| Korean War | Fought to keep South Korea democratic, ended in a stalemate |
| stalemate | neither side won, boundaries stayed the same |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | President after Harry S Truman, during 1950s |
| John F. Kennedy | President from1960-63, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, was assassinated |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | Soviet Union tried to place nuclear missiles in Cuba, closest U.S. got to actual war with Soviets |
| blockade | U.S. placed a blockade around Cuba to stop all Soviet ships from reaching the island |
| Vietnam War | U.S. intervened to stop the spread of communism into south Vietnam, was very controversial war |
| Domino Theory | belief communism would spread from country to country if it wasn't stopped |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | President during Vietnam War |
| Richard Nixon | Ended the war in Vietnam with a cease-fire and withdrawal of U.S. troops |
| Cease-fire | stop fighting |
| Berlin Wall | wall separating East and West Berlin, its destruction was symbolic of the end of communism in the soviet Union & eastern Europe countries |
| superpower | Most powerful country; the U.S. and Soviet Union were both superpowers |
| capitalism - free market economy | Private ownership of property & business, individual achievement & competition are rewarded |
| United Nations | a peacekeeping organization made up of member nations |
| Harry S. Truman | President after WWII and during Korean War |
| Cold War | A state of tension caused by differing ideologies between the U.S. and Soviet Union, fueled the arms race |
