| A | B |
|---|
| trials the Allies held in Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II to hold Nazi leaders and other Germans accountable for war crimes and other atrocities they committed during the war | NUREMBERG TRIALS |
| the U.S. policy of attempting to restrict Soviet power and influence around the world by preventing the spread of communism | CONTAINMENT |
| the struggle for power that took place between the United States and the Soviet Union in the decades after World War II | COLD WAR |
| the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba in 1962 that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war | CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS |
| the ideological barrier that divided Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War | IRON CURTAIN |
| the belief that if Vietnam fell to the communists, the rest of Asia would fall like a row of dominoes | DOMINO THEORY |
| support for countries seeking to resist communist influence but not for overthrowing a communist government. | TRUMAN DOCTRINE |
| an international organization founded in 1945 to promote peace, security, and cooperation among the world’s nations | UNITED NATIONS |
| an extremely powerful nation, one of a very few dominant states in an era when the world is divided politically into these states and their satellites | SUPER POWER |
| a U.S. aid plan designed to promote economic recovery in Europe after World War II | MARSHALL PLAN |
| a partition, built by the Soviet union, that separated West Berrlin from East Berlin to stop the migration of people from East Germany to West Germany. | BERLIN WALL |
| a mutual defense pact formed by Western nations in 1949 | NATO |
| a competition to achieve weapons superiority | ARMS RACE |
| a 1955 defense pact between the USSR and Eastern European nations | WARSAW PACT |
