| A | B |
|---|
| Truman Doctrine- 1947 | Aid program to Greece and Turkey to keep communism from growing in the region(400 million dollars) |
| Marshall plan- 1948 | Recovery (Aid) program to Western European nations to rebuild economies and discourage communism from growing in the region(13 billion dollars) |
| Berlin Airlift- 1948-1949 | Soviet Union blockaded West Berlin from imported goods, to pressure the area to abandon capitalism, US flew in supplies for ayear and half, SOviets ended the blockade |
| NATO | a collective security arrangement, democratic nations pledge to defend each other in times of military attack |
| Korean War | North Korea invaded South Korea, U.N. sent in a force to return the peace and independence to South Korea |
| Domino Theory | if one nation falls to communism, other neighboring nations will fall to communism as well |
| Sputnik | Soviet satellite put up in space before the U.S. could do it, U.S. upset, encouraged more science and math in schools, created NASA |
| U2 spy plane shot down over Soviet Union | Soviet Premier Khruschev canceled a summit meeting and we plunged back into the Cold war after a short detente |
| Bay of Pigs invasion | U.S. didn't support Cuban rebels in attack on communist Cuba(Castro) as we had promised, it failed to overthrow Castro |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | Pres. Kennedy reacted with a naval quarantine to not allow any more offensive nuclear weapons in Cuba, then agreed to not invade Cuba if the Soviet missiles were removed |
| U.S.S.R invades Afghanistan | U.S. under President Carter boycotts the sale of grain to them, boycotts the summer Olympics |
| Warsaw Pact | Military alliance of communist nations, Soviet Union and satellite nations |
| Joseph Stalin | U.S.S.R (Russian) communist dictator, 5 year plan, industrialize the Soviet Union, killed opponents |
| Containment | actions taken to stop the spread of communism |
| Korean and Vietnam (Wars) | Divided nations, Fought to prevent the spread of communism |
| United Nations | International organization meant to solve int'l problems, keep the peace |
| Vietnam War | A Nationalist, Communist leader Ho Chi Minh wanted to reunite all of Vietnam and did with war |
| Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain speech | Fear the spread of communism in Eastern Europe |
| Five Year Plan | Industrialize the Soviet Union, seize land, create collective farms |
| Pol Pot | Communist leader of Cambodia- brutal regime, violated human rights, killed thousands |
| Slobodan Milosevic | Violated human rights of the Serbs |
| Examples of the COld War | Marshall Plan, Berlin Airlift, Berlin Wall, Cuban Missile Crisis, NATO, |
| Cold War | state of tension between U.S. and U.S.S.R, no physical war though |
| Two superpowers | U.S. and U.S.S.R after WWII, dominate world politics |
