MEETING OF THE "BIG THREE", IT WAS APPARENT THE SOVIET UNION AND THE US HAD VERY DIFFERENT IDEAS FOR WHAT THE POST-WAR WORLD SHOULD LOOK LIKE...COLD WAR BEGINS...
POTSDAM
POLICY TO KEEP COMMUNISM FROM SPREADING
CONTAINMENT
ORGANIZATION FORMED TO OPPOSE COMMUNISM IN EUROPE
NATO
Where Korea was split in half.
The 38th Parallel.
TERM USED BY CHURCHILL TO DESCRIBE WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO EUROPE
IRON CURTAIN
CREATION OF THIS WEAPON HEIGHTENED THE HYSTERIA OF THE COLD WAR.
H-BOMB
ORGANIZATION ORGANIZED BY THE SOVIETS TO OPPOSE NATO
WARSAW PACT
His official policy toward communism was "containment."
Truman
CONFLICT STARTED WHEN HUNGARY TRIED TO GET FREEDOM FROM THE SOVIET UNION
HUNGARIAN UPRISING
PUSHING EVENTS AS FAR AS YOU CAN WITHOUT STARTING A WAR
BRINKMANSHIP