| A | B |
|---|
| The U.S. policy of keeping communism from spreading | containment |
| Churchill used this to describe the line between free and communist countries | iron curtain |
| The Big Three meet here to plan postwar Europe | Yalta |
| President of the U.S. at the Yalta Conference | Roosevelt |
| Prime Minister of Great Britain at the Yalta Conference | Churchill |
| Leader of the USSR at the Yalta Conference | Stalin |
| General in charge of U.S. forces in Korea | MacArthur |
| Korea was divided along this parallel | 38 degree |
| UN troops pushed south to this perimeter | Pusan |
| UN forces pushed North Koreans to this river | Yalu |
| Slogan used to teach children what to do in a nuclear attack | Duck and Cover |
| The CIA helped him overthrow Mossadeg in Iran | Shah |
| Code name for operation in Iran | Ajax |
| Egyptian general who nationalized the Suez Canal | Nasser |
| City in which the first arms reductions talks took place | Geneva |
| The U.S. relied on air power and nuclear weapons; if the Soviets attacked, the U.S. would begin a nuclear war or do nothign | massive retaliation |
| A war of words and strategy, not guns | Cold War |
| created after WWII so nations could talk out their problems | United Nations |
| The U.S. would assist any free people resisting communism | Truman Doctrine |
| Gave billions of dollars to help rebuild Europe | Marshall Plan |
| Kept West Berlin from falling to the communists | Berlin Airlift |
| The U.S. and USSR began a huge buildup of weapons each vying for superiority | arms race |
| First permanent alliance by the U.S. since the Revolutionary War | NATO |
| Communist leader in the Chinese Civil War | Mao Zedong |
| Nationist leader in the Chinese Civil War | Chiang Kai-Chek |
| radioactive clouds and ash | fallout |
| confine fighting to one area and avoid the use of nuclear weapons | limited war |
| a developing country | emerging nation |
| an undercover mission | covert operation |
| Communist leader of Cuba | Castro |
| General Nasser took over the Suez Canal for this reason | To profit from the tolls |
| the refusal to back down from a crisis, no matter the implications | brinkmanship |
| to convert a resource from private to government control | nationalize |
| President during the Bay of Pigs Incident | Kennedy |
