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Cold War
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Cold War | about fifty years of intense conflict between the US and the USSR that never actually resulted in the two countries fighting each other |
| containment | policy of keeping communism from spreading |
| Berlin Wall | set up in Berlin after the failure of the Berlin Airlift; recognized as an "iron curtain" of sorts |
| Berlin Airlift | The USSR set up a blockade of Berlin; the US responded by dropping supplies by air to the East Germans |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization; organization of democratic countries |
| Joseph McCarthy | senator who encouraged the Red Scare in the US |
| Nikita Khrushchev | leader of Russia during the Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Korean War | the forgotten war; occurred because North Korea invaded South Korea (crossed the 38th parallel); the US supported South Korea; armistice ended the war and no changes were made |
| Iron Curtain | imaginary boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991 |
| Red Scare | Americans were afraid that their government would become a communist government. There was an overall fear of communists. |
| communism | a political system where the major resources in a society—such as mines, factories, and farms—are owned by the public or the state, and wealth is divided among citizens equally or according to individual need. |
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