| A | B |
|---|
| Iron Curtain | imaginary wall or line separating Eastern Europe from other nations |
| Truman Doctrine | encouraged resistance to Communist expansion (Greece and Turkey) |
| Marshall Plan | helped rebuild Europe after WWII |
| Summit Conference | meeting of top leaders of the world's major powers |
| Alliance for Progress | provided aid to Latin American countries |
| Exile | person forced to leave his or her country |
| Detente | policy to reduce tensions between superpowers |
| Draft | system of mandatory military enlistment |
| Perjury | lying under oath |
| Containment | U.S. foreign policy after WWII - stop the spread of Communism |
| UN Security Council | permanent members are: USA, Russia, Great Britain, France, and China |
| Cold War Adversaries | USA v. Soviet Union |
| NATO | Alliance of Western Democracies |
| Warsaw Pact | Alliance of Communist countries |
| Rosenberg's | spies who passed atomic weapons secrets to the Soviets |
| A-Bomb | Soviet Union was the second country to have it |
| Taiwan | Chinese Communists drove the Nationalists to Taiwan |
| Mao Zedong | leader of Communist China in 1949 |
| Korean War | Communist forces from North Korea invaded South Korea |
| MacArthur | fired by Truman because he wanted to bomb China |
| Joe McCarthy | Senator who accused people in the U.S. army of being Communist |
| Nikita Khrushchev | became Soviet leader after Stalin's death in 1953 |
| Berlin Airlift | used by U.S. to overcome Soviet Union's blockade of Berlin |
| Suez Canal Crisis | occured after Egypt nationalized the canal (This was opposed by Egypt, France, and Israel.) |
| U-2 Incident | USA spy plane shot down over USSR (leads to mistrust) |
| Castro's Cuba | Communist |
| Agreement that ends the Crisis | Soviets would remove their missiles from Cuba and the U.S. promised not to invade |
| Latin America | the USA promoted reforms there with the "Alliance for Progress" |
| 20th Century Presidents | Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhoser, Kennedy |
| Tet Offensive | caused opposition to the war in the U.S. to intensify |
| Protests Increase | as the war dragson and more Americans die |
| Communism Spreads | attempted to spread to Latin America during the 1970's and 1980's (USA intervened) |
| Arms Race | USA and Soviets spend tons of money on military build up and new weapons |
| Collapse of the Soviet Union | caused by overwhelming demands for reform |
| Flawed economic system | leads to collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union |
