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Cold War

Ideological struggle between the US and USSR.

Superpower

Nation with unrivaled military power.

Joseph Stalin

Dictator of the Soviet Union from 1928 to 1953.

Truman Doctrine

$400 million in US aid to Greece and Turkey.

Marshall Plan

$13 billion in aid to Western Europe.

Satellites

Eastern European countries dominated by the USSR.

Containment

US foreign policy aimed at stopping the spread of communism.

George Kennan

Architect of the containment policy.

Berlin Airlift

11-month response to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin.

NATO

US collective security organization established to counter the Soviet threat.

Warsaw Pact

Soviet collective security pact formed in response to NATO.

Arms Race

The competition between nations to build up stores of weapons.

MAD

Mutual Assured Destruction, a doctrine of military strategy.

ICBMs

Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles capable of delivering nuclear warheads.

Sputnik

First artificial satellite to orbit Earth, launched by the USSR.

Nikita Khrushchev

Soviet leader who ordered the construction of the Berlin Wall.

Berlin Wall

A barrier that prevented the exodus of East Berlin residents to the West.

Iron Curtain

Churchill's metaphor representing the division between Western and Eastern Europe during the Cold War.