| A | B |
|---|
| Truman Doctrine | Containment of Communism |
| Warsaw Pact | Formed by Soviet Allies |
| President Eisenhower | Massive Retaliation policy |
| NATO | Formed as a defensive alliance |
| President Kennedy | Assassinated in 1963 |
| Fidel Castro | Communist revolution in Cuba |
| Senator Joseph McCarthy | Red Scare |
| Bay of Pigs | An invasion which failed in Cuba |
| WWII to collapse of Soviet Union | Length of Cold War (45 years) |
| Japan | adopts democratic form of government |
| Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs | Spies for Soviet Union |
| President Nixon | exploited China and Soviet Unions fight for territory |
| US and Soviet Union | had nuclear weapons |
| Communist Chinese forces | sided with North Korea |
| President Nixon resigns | due to Watergate scandal |
