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Cold War I
Cold War Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Cold War | An era of high tension and bitter rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union in the decades following World War II |
| Iron Curtain | Term coined by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe an imaginary line dividing Communist countries in the Soviet bloc from countries in Western Europe during the Cold War |
| Truman Doctrine | (1947) U.S. President Truman’s pledge to provide economic and military aid to countries threatened by communism |
| Marshall Plan | (1947) Plan for the economic reconstruction of Europe after World War II |
| Containment | The United States policy adopted in the 1940s to stop the spread of communism by providing economic and military aid to countries opposing the Soviets |
| Berlin Airlift | (1948–1949) A program in which the United States and Britain shipped supplies by air to West Berlin during the Soviet blockade of all routes to the city |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization; a defensive military alliance of twelve Western nations formed in 1949 |
| Warsaw Pact | A military alliance of the Soviet |
| Arms Race | Competition between nations to gain an advantage in weapons |
| Sputnik | (1957) The first artificial satellite; launched by the Soviet Union |