Policies
The foundational U.S. policy aimed to prevent the spread of communism
Containment
This type of weapon was being built in competition by both the Soviet Union and the US during the Cold War arms race
Nuclear Weapons
The Communist dictator of the Soviet Union who wanted to control a majority of Europe after World War II.
Joseph Stalin
When the US used aircrafts to drop food and relief supplies to people in West Berlin.
Berlin Airlift
Communism
Truman's 1947 policy to provide political, military, and economic assistance to democratic nations under threat from communist forces - specifically Greece and Turkey
This term is used to describe the race between the US and the Soviet Union to achieve space flight and technological superiority.
Space Race
The Prime Minister of Great Britain who warned the world about an "iron curtain".
Winston Churchill
The 10 month trials of over 170 Nazi officials to demand justice and warn the world that such crimes would be punished.
Nuremberg Trials
A political and economic system based on private ownership of goods and services
Capitalism
Also known as the European Recovery Program, this provided economic assistance to rebuild Western European economies after World War II
the Marshall Plan
This was built to stop people from fleeing Communist East Germany for Democratic West Germany.
Berlin Wall
The President who came into power after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Harry Truman
In 1945, the "Big 3" (Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin) met in this city to agree on how to win the war and create lasting peace.
Yalta
The agency under the United States government that was developed in 1958 and is in charge of the nation's public space
NASA
Also called the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, this was a mutual defense alliance comprising Eastern European communist states
the Warsaw Pact
The theory that if one nation fell to Communism, surrounding countries would fall to Communism as well.
Domino Theory
The person who claimed there were communist spies working within the US government (known as the term '________-ism').
Joseph McCarthy (McCarthyism)
This event marked the beginning of the opening of the Iron Curtain and fall of Communism in Eastern Europe
This organization formed after World War II to prevent future conflicts and replace the League of Nations
United Nations
Signed on April 4, 1949, this is the founding document that establishes a collective security alliance of 32 North American and European countries committed to mutual defense, peace, and democratic values.
the North Atlantic Treaty
The blocking of rail, road, and water access to Democratic West Berlin in an attempt to drive out allies.
the Soviet Blockade
This Soviet leader helped to organize a Communist government in Cuba and advocate for "de-Stalinization" of the Soviet Union.
Nikita Khrushchev
When Khruschev placed missiles in Cuba, later to be removed by the Soviet Union after the US promised not to invade Cuba.
Cuban Missile Crisis
This 1991 event marked the official end to the Cold War
Dissolution of the Soviet Union