| A | B |
|---|
| satellite nations | this gorup consisted entirely of Eastern European nations |
| Berlin airlift | this action provided vital supplies to a region blockaded by the Soviet Union |
| United Nations | both the US and USSR joined this group after WWII |
| Harry Truman | he arranged for about $600 million in aid to be sent to postwar Turkey and Greece |
| NATO | this defensive military alliance was the first military alliance that the US ever entered during peacetime |
| Marshall Plan | this aid package was directed "not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos" |
| Cold War | this term refers to the indirect but hostile conflict between the US and the USSR that began at the end of WWII |
| Fidel Castro | communist dictator of Cuba |
| Cuba | Fidel Castro is the communist dictator of this country |
| Nikita Khrushchev | he squared off against Kennedy during the Berlin crisis |
| John F. Kennedy | he squared off against Khrushchev during the Berlin crisis |
