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Cold War A nonviolent war between communist and noncommunist.
Containment
A US policy to eliminate all communism.
Iron Curtain
An imaginary barrier between communist and noncommunist.
Marshall Plan
The US would aid Europe during the cold war, so they would be on the US’s side.
Truman Doctrine
Stated the US would aid any nation that was fighting communism.
Berlin (1948-49)
The US sends Berlin supplies using aircraft.
NATO
Established to keep peace in the Northern Atlantic.
Warsaw Pact
A response to the NATO treaty by the communist states, forming an alliance.
USSR Gets the Bomb
The Soviet Union builds an atomic bomb which made many nations afraid.
Korean War
A battle fought between North and South Korea over communism.
HUAC
A group in the US that was on the watch for any communism.
Smith Act
Made it an offense to support communism.
Conformity
The thought that communism would spread.
McCarthyism
A time when people when people were being accused of being communist without having solid truth.
Rosenburg Case
A couple was executed for informing the USSR of our atomic secrets.

Arms Race
A race between The US and Japan to make an atomic bomb.
Brinksmanship
Pushing a nation as far as possible before war is declared.
Sputnik
The US is on a mission to send a man on the moon.
SEATO
An alliance to eliminate US presence in Vietnam.
Domino Theory
A theory that once one nation became communist, they all would.
Eisenhower Doctrine
Stated any country who was under communist attack, could request to assist militarily.
U2 Incident
An American spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Union which increased tensions.

Bay of Pigs
An unsuccessful US attack on Cuba.
Cuban Missile Crisis
The closest the world has ever gotten to nuclear war.
MAD
The US policy that states if any nation attacks us, we will attack them even worse.
Berlin Wall
People were barricaded in Berlin due to communism.
Nixon & China
Nixon visited China telling them that everything was going to be alright.
Détente
Tensions were eased between the US and Soviet Union.
Evil Empire Speech
Reagan defines the Soviet Union as an ‘evil empire’.

Glasnost
A soviet policy that allowed citizens to talk freely about politics.
Perestrokia
The rebuilding of the Soviet economy.
Arms Reduction
Many nations signed a treaty that slowed down the production of nuclear weapons.
End of Cold War
The Cold War finally came to an end after the Berlin Wall was taken down.