Important People
The dictator of the Soviet Union who believed that he should control a majority of Europe after WWII.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
The time period when fighting was done by using money and words instead of guns and soldiers. The battle between Communism and Capitalism
What is the Cold War?
The symbol of the differences between communist and noncommunist countries that separated Western and Eastern Europe
What is the Iron Curtain?
A policy written by President Truman to contain communism. It resulted in giving Greece and Turkey billions of dollars each.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
Who is Winston Churchill?
An organization and international military alliance set up for nations to trade peacefully with one another and to help stop the spread of communism and spread capitalism and defend Western Europe
What is NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
Ordinary people and businesses control the production of goods and services.
What is capitalism?
A conflict between North Vietnam (communist) and South Vietnam (non-communist). The U.S. tried to stop the spread of communism, but failed. South Vietnam became communist 2 years after the war ended.
What is the Vietnam War?
The president who took over after Franklin D. Roosevelt's death and who tried to stop the spread of communism.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
When the U.S. used planes to drop food and supplies to help the people of West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
The government controls production and owns the nation's natural and capital resources.
What is communism?
An agreement to stop fighting.
What is a cease-fire?
The Communist Leader of China who started the Five Year Plan or the Great Leap Forward
Who is Mao Zedong?
Mao started this policy that resulted in the deaths of 50 million of his own people. His agricultural policies led to famine and he executed those who didn't agree
What is the Great Leap Forward? (5 Year Plan)
President that successfully stopped the spread of communism in Europe with the Marshall Plan
Who is Harry Truman
Rebels that fought US troops in South Vietnam who were communist supporters.
Who is the Vietcong?
The Communist Leader of North Korea
Kim Jung Un
The war fought over the spread of communism between communist N. Korea and non-communist S. Korea; U.S. leaders thought that the Soviet Union had helped plan the attack.
What is the Korean War?
This was built to keep the people of East Berlin from fleeing to West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Wall?
If one country falls to communism the countries bordering it will also fall.
What is Domino Theory?