| A | B |
|---|
| Cold War | hostility/trouble between US and USSR in the decades following WWII (communist/non-communist nations) |
| Marshall Plan | US sends $$$ to help re-build Western Europe |
| NATO | organization set up to stop the spread of communism |
| Warsaw Pact | agreement between USSR and Eastern European nations to protect eachother in the case of an attack |
| Space Race | competition between USSR and US regarding advancement of space program |
| Korean War | North Korea (communist) vs. South Korea (non communist); ended in armistice and original borders |
| U-2 incident | US spy plane was shot down over the USSR and raised tensions with the US |
| Bay of Pigs invasion | Failed secret raid on Cuba byhat was supported by the CIA exiles t |
| Cuban Missle Crisis | Cuban leader Fidel Castro allowed USSR to use nuclear missle bases in Cuba; US said to remove missles; they were removed |
| ICBMs | Nuclear armed rockets capable of traveling across the world to hit target in foreign countries |
| Blockade | A military strategy used to surround an enemy to prevent free movement |
| Joseph Stalin | The former long time leader of the USSR during and immediately after WW2 |
| Berlin Airlift | the dropping of supplies(by air) into Berlin while the Soviets tried to block-off the city |
| Berlin Wall | built in 1961 to divide soviet controlled E. Berlin from democratic W. Berlin |
| Iron Curtain | how Churchill described USSR's isolation of Eastern Europe from the rest of the world |
| Harry Truman | The POTUS who ordered the atomic bombing of Japan |
| Winston Churchill | The Prime Minister (leader) of England during WW2 |
| Communism | totalitarian system of government |
| Socialism | The failed economic system favored by countries like Cuba and Venezuela and even some leaders in the US |
| McCarthyism | The often unjust system of accusations of communism in the US during the 1940s and 1950s |
