| A | B |
|---|
| Satellite State | Independent nation under the control of a more powerful state |
| Joseph Stalin | Dictator of the Soviet Union |
| Cold War | worldwide rivalry between the U.S. and the Soviet Union |
| Iron Curtin | a term to describe the border between the Soviet satellite states and Western Europe |
| Truman Doctine | Pres Truman's promise to help nations struggling against communist movements |
| Containment | keeping communism contained within its existing borders |
| Marshall Plan | economic and foreign policy that offered aid to Western Europe countries after WWII |
| Berlin Airlift | program is which U.S. and British pilots flew supples to West Berlin during a Soviet blockade |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization - provided the military alliance formed to counter Soviet expansion |
| Warsaw Pact | military alliance of the Soviet Union and its satellite states |
