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Cold War I
Cold War Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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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 |