Early Cold War
This organization was a collective security groups formed by the United States and other western countries.
NATO
What was the U.S. policy of trying to stop the spread of communism called?
Containment
The period of eased tensions in the 1970's Cold War
Dètente
This European recovery plan offered $13 billion to rebuild Western Europe after WWII.
Marshall Plan
This 1947 U.S. policy aimed to stop the spread of communism by supporting nations resisting it.
Truman Doctrine
The last leader of the Soviet Union
Gorbachev
This 1948–49 event involved Western Allies flying in supplies during a Soviet blockade.
This Cold War theory claimed if one country fell to communism, others nearby would follow.
Domino Theory
The first satellite launched into space by the USSR
Sputnik
What was the Soviet Union’s response to the creation of NATO?
The Warsaw Pact
The term used to describe an armed conflict between two groups backed by the U.S. and the USSR respectively.
Proxy War
This event marks when the U.S. and USSR were closest to nuclear conflict.
Cuban Missile Crisis
This term was used by the former Prime Minister of Great Britain to describe the ideological divide forming in Europe
The Iron Curtain
This was the sentiment that prevented direct conflicts between the two sides in the Cold War
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
The first proxy war in the Cold War where the United States tried to limit the spread of Communism.