Cold War Flashcards
Truman Doctrine
The United States’ pledge to fight the spread of communism at all costs.
CONTAINMENT
The United States’ policy of preventing the spread of communism.
Cold War
Battle between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. between democracy and communism.
Warsaw Pact
Collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War
MCCARTHYISM
Fear of communism in the United States following WWII.
DOMINO EFFECT
The fear that if Vietnam fell to communism, so would the surrounding countries.
Communism
During the cold War, the Soviet Union wanted new countries to set up this type of government.
KOREAN & VIETNAM WARS
Two specific Cold War wars in which the north was communist and the U.S. helped the democratic south.
BERLIN AIRLIFT
The United States’ response to the Soviet Union’s blockade of West Berlin.
Space Race
Battle between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to put a man in space. Sign of superiority.