| A | B |
|---|
| United Nations (UN) | organization designed to be a forum to prevent war and solve international problems, founded in 1945 |
| satellite nations | countries dominated by the Soviet Union |
| containment | Truman's policy of preventing communist expansion into other countries |
| iron curtain | symbolic name of the border between Western Europe and the Communist bloc |
| Cold War | rivalry between the United States and the USSR that did not erupt into actual war |
| Truman Doctrine | committed the United States to aid free peoples everywhere resisting communism |
| Marshall Plan | economic aid to Europe after WWII; revived the European economy |
| Berlin airlift | Britsh and American effort to resupply Berlin when the Soviets tried to blockade it |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | European and American defensive alliance formed in 1949 |
| Warsaw Pact | Communist military alliance formed to counter NATO |
