Untitled Flashcards Set

1

Cold War

ideological struggle between US and USSR

2

Superpower

nation with unrivaled military power

3

Joseph Stalin

dictator of the Soviet Union (1928-1953)

4

Truman Doctrine

$400 million in US aid to Greece and Turkey

5

Marshall Plan

$13 billion in aid to western Europe

6

Satellites

eastern European countries dominated by the USSR

7

Containment

US foreign policy of stopping spread of communism

8

George Kennan

architect of containment

9

Berlin Airlift

11 month response to Soviet blockade

10

NATO

US collective security organization

11

Warsaw Pact

Soviet collective security pact

12

Arms Race

building up stores for weapons

13

MAD

Mutual Assured Destruction

14

ICBMs

Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles

15

Sputnik

first artificial satellite to orbit Earth

16

Nikita Khruschev

Soviet leader who ordered the construction of the Berlin Wall

17

Berlin Wall

prevented humiliating exodus from East Berlin

18

Iron Curtain

Churchill's metaphor for the Cold War