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Cold War Part 1
Vocab. for Cold War
Term | Definition |
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Cold War | after WWII, the long period of intense rivalry between the Soviet Union and the U.S. |
Iron Curtain | a term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the border between the Soviet Union and Western Europe |
containment | the policy of trying to prevent the spread of Soviet influence beyond where it already existed |
Marshall Plan | an American plan to help European nations rebuild their economies after WWII |
Berlin Airlift | an American and British relief effort to airlift supplies to West Berliners from 1948 to 1949 |
Berlin Wall | the wall built by the Communist East German government in 1961 to seal off East Berlin from West Berlin |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization | (NATO) a political and military alliance between the U.S., Canada, and European nations created in 1949 |
Warsaw Pact | a military alliance, established in 1955, of the Soviet Union and other communist states in Europe |
United Nations | (UN) a world organization established in 1945 to provide peaceful resolutions to international conflicts |
paralyze | to make something unable to function |
reunification | joining again to make a single thing |