Terms -Containment:the
action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits such as
communism.
- Iron curtain:the national barrier separating the former Soviet union and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in Eastern Europe in 1989
- mcCarthyism: campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator McCarthy
- DOmino theory: if one country falls to communism, then others will fall to communism in a domino-like fashion
- Marshall plan:an American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II
- uNITED NATIONS:is an intergovernmental organization established OCTOBER 24, 1945 to promote international co-operation - nATO: The
North Atlantic Treaty Organization is
an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty
- WARSAW PACT: A
military alliance of communist nations in Eastern Europe
Iron Curtain
The Domino Theory
McCarthy
United Nations
NATO
Events - kOREAN WAR: A war, also called the Korean conflict, fought in the early 1950's between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea
- SPUTNIK:each of a series of Soviet artificial satellites, the first of which (launched on October 4, 1957) was the first satellite to be placed in orbit - BERLIN AIRLIFT:A military operation in the late 1940's that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air