origins

Question 1

iron curtain

Answer 1

political & ideological division seperating western europe from the soviet union

Question 2

truman doctrine

Answer 2

US giving money to democratic nations to help them get away from communism

Question 3

marshall plan

Answer 3

US provided money to rebuild europes economy

Question 4

containment

Answer 4

strategic foreign policy used by the US to prevent the spread of communism

Question 5

satellite nations

Answer 5

Eastern Europe nations allied with USSR

Question 6

NATO

Answer 6

the first military alliance the US entered outside the western hemisphere

Question 7

warsaw pact

Answer 7

defense treaty made by the USSR & 7 other soviet satellite states in Eastern Europe

Question 8

COMICON

Answer 8

council of mutual economic assistance- USSRs version of nato in the west

Question 9

arms race

Answer 9

rivals overproducing nuclear weapons using Mutual Assure Destruction

Question 10

hydrogen bomb

Answer 10

MK-17 was the first operational thermonuclear bomb, during the cold war the US used h-bombs as a defense

Question 11

united nations

Answer 11

peacekeeping goals just wanted to maintain and stabilize hostile situations