| 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 |
| democracy | citizens have legislative, judicial and executive powers based on majority rule |
| capitalism | economic system based on private ownership..promotes free market regulated by supply and demand |
| Cuban Missle Crisis | Castro allowed USSR to use nuclear missle bases in Cuba; US said to remove missles; they were removed |
| Baby Boom | An increase in the population of the U.S. after WWII. |
| John Kennedy | President during the Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Nikita Khrushchev | Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis |
| 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 |
| Lyndon Johnson | President that escalated the Vietnam War. |
| sputnik | soviet satellite put into orbit in 1957 (1st man-made satellite) |
| communism | totalitarian system of government |
| command economy | an economic system controlled by strong, centralized gov't. |
| Satellite nation | nations conquered by Soviet nations to separate communist nations from Western Europe |
| partition | to divide into small parts. |
| blockade | a military concept where an area is secured, and nosupplies or people may move into that area. |
| occupation | the term of control of a territory by one nation over another. |
| Domino Theory | the belief that if one country in a region became a communism, others would follow. |
| 38th Parallel | Division line between North and South Korea |
| DMZ | Demilitarized Zone (divided North and South Vietnam) |
| Ho Chi Minh | Communist leader of North Vietnam |
| Truman Doctrine | US's pledge to help countries fight communism. |
| containment | Effort to stop the spread of communism around the world. |
| ideology | Belief in how a government should be set up. |
| Superpower | A country of great power, wealth and influence. |
| Cold War | A building up of tension between the US and the Soviet Union. |
| Totalitarian State | A government that restricts many rights and freedoms of the people. |
