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What does containment mean?
Keeping something harmful under control.
What is the Truman Docturine?
A U.S foreign policy promising military and economic aid to any nation resisting communist takeover. Aimed to "contain" Soviet expansion.
What is the Iron Curtain?
The ideological, political, and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas. Communist Eastern Europe and democratic Western Europe.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
A 13-day standoff between the U.S. and Soviet Union, marking the closest the world came to nuclear war.
What does a Super Power mean?
Nations with military, economic, and technological superiority capable of exerting influence globally. For example US and USSR.
What is the Berlin Blockade?
A Soviet attempt to force the Western Allies to abandon West Berlin, located deep inside Soviet-occupied Germany. USSR cut off all rail, road, and water access.
What does Capitalism mean?
An economic system based on private ownership of the means of production, free markets, and profit-driven competition.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
A huge 15-month mission by the US and UK to fly over 2.3 million tons of food, fuel, and supplies into West Berlin. It began after the USSR blocked all ground access to the city, aiming to force the Allies out.
What does Proxy mean?
Armed conflicts where the U.S. and USSR fought indirectly by supporting opposing sides in smaller nations to avoid direct nuclear confrontation.
What is Nato?
A defensive security alliance formed by North American and European countries. It guarantee freedom, security, and collective defense of its 32 member states.