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Cold War
vocabulary list
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| George Kennan | His long telegram told the US government to contain communism |
| Harry Truman | His doctrine had the USA give money and weapons to countries to fight against communism |
| Iron Curtain | Symbolic separation in Europe between Communist Eastern and Democratic Western countries |
| Marshall Plan | US gives Western European countries money to rebuild after WWII |
| DMZ | Military border separating North and South Korea |
| Mutually Assured Destruction | Idea that both USA and the USSR would be destroyed in a nuclear war |
| Sputnik | 1st Soviet Satellite in outer space |
| Yuri Gagarin | 1st Soviet human being in outer space |
| Fidel Castro | Leader of Communist Revolution in Cuba |
| Joseph McCarthy | US Senator that accused people in US government of being communists |
| Francis Gary Powers | U-2 pilot that was shot down over Russia |
| Lee Harvey Oswald | Man that shot and killed President Kennedy |
| Neil Armstrong | US astronaut that is the first man on the moon |
| Richard Nixon | Only President in US history to resign |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Leader of USSR at end of Cold War |