| A | B |
|---|
| Marshall Plan | Rebuilt Europe-bakeries, highways, schools, bridges |
| Truman Doctrine | US gave millions to Greece and Turkey to keep the Communists out. |
| NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) | Countries formed an alliance to protect themselves from Communism |
| Warsaw Pact | Communist nations form alliance |
| United Nations | World Police after WWII |
| Berlin Airlift | US and Great Britian airlift supplies to West Berlin to keep them from falling to the Communists |
| Berlin Wall | Communists build wall around East Berlin to keep their people from going to free West Berlin |
| Domino Theory | If one country falls to communism, other countries will also fall like a row of dominos. |
| containment policy | Contain the spread of communism-don't let it spread to other countries |
| Korean War | War fought in Korea. North Korea was communist, South Korea was free-treaty was drawn on the 38th parallel |
| Cuban Crises | Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Bay of Pigs | Anti-Castro Cubans tried to overthrow Castro-failed |
| Cuban dictator | Fidel Castro |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | President Kennedy and Soviet Dictator Krushchev battled over the Soviet missiles in Cuba |
| Iron Curtain | After WWII Europe is divided into Communist and Free countries |
| Winston Churchill | British Prime Minister describe the division of Europe as the Iron Curtain |
| Baby boomers | Generation of babies born after WWII-lots of babies |
| Berlin | European city that was most affected by the Cold War-Berlin Wall separated the city |
| Truman vs. MacArthur | President Truman fires General MacArthur |
| Soviet dictators | Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Nikta Krushchev |
| Peace Corps | Pres. Kennedy's program to help developing nations and to stop the spread of Communism |
| Space Race | Sputnik-Soviets 1st to go into space-started a race between the US and Soviet Union (Russia) |
| Senator Joseph McCarthy (McCarthyism) | started the Red Scare after WWII |
| Hollywood 10 | Movie producers and movie stars that were accused of being communists |
| Math and Science and NASA | Space race made US to put more money into education and space research |
| Vietnam War | North Vietnam-communist/South Vietnam-free |
| Gulf of Tonkin | North Vietnam attacked US ship |
| 17th parallel | War in Vietnam ends. Vietnam is divided on the 17th parallel. North is communist south is free |
| Richard Nixon | only president to resign |
| Lyndon Johnson | president when Kennedy dies |
| Great Society | Lyndon Johnson's domesic program-headstart, improved health care |
