vocab history 4/17/26

Cold war

A state of tension in hostility between nations aligned with the US on one side and that is Soviet Union on the other side that rarely led to direct armed conflict

Truman doctrine

United States policy established in 1947 of trying to contain the spread of communism

Containment

The US strategy of limiting communism to the areas already under Soviet control

Iron curtain

A symbol of the Cold War. fear of communism

Marshall plan

massive aid package offered by the US to Europe to help countries rebuild after World War II

Berlin airlift

Stalin’s resentment at western moves to rebuild Germany triggered a crisis over Berlin.

NATO

an organization to prevent Russian invasion of Europe

Warsaw pact

Mutual defense alliance between the Soviet Union and seven satellites in eastern Europe set up in 1955

Berlin wall

A showcase for West German prosperity. key focus of Cold War tensions

Disarmament

reduced the threat of nuclear war

Detente

The relaxation of Cold War tensions during the 1970s

Cuban Missile Crisis

US impose a trade embargo on Cuba and let Soviets build nuclear missile basis in Cuba

HUAC

ruin careers of thousands of Americans. A campaign to identify suppose communist sympathizers

Glasnost

openness in Russia, a Soviet policy of greater freedom of expression

Perestroika

A political reform movement within the communist party of the Soviet Union