Untitled Flashcards Set

Cold War

United Nations

Soviet satellite (buffer) states

Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech

containment/Truman Doctrine

Marshall Plan

Berlin Airlift

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

Warsaw Pact

Arms Race (for atomic weapons)

Chinese civil war

Chiang Kai-shek/ Nationalists

Mao Zedong/Communists

Korean War

Dwight D. Eisenhower

John Foster Dulles and "brinkmanship"

Nikita Khrushchev

Hungarian Revolt, 1956

Sputnik

National Defense and Education Act

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

U-2 Incident

Fidel Castro/Communist takeover of Cuba

military-industrial complex

John F. Kennedy

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Berlin Wall

Cuban Missile Crisis

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty