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Cold War Vocab 1A
Cold War in Europe Vocabulary 1A
Term | Definition |
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Arms Race | Competition between nations to gain an advantage in weapons |
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 | US President Truman’s pledge to provide economic and military aid to countries threatened by communism |
Marshall Plan | 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 |