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Yalta Conference
This was sited as the start of the Cold War. -
Super Powers
The leading nations in the world after WWII. -
Policy of Containment
The US policy of keeping communism within its existing boundaries and it prevented further Soviet aggression. -
Truman Doctrine
USA provides military and economic aid to countries threatened by Communism. -
Marshall Plan
US economic recovery for war-torn Europe. -
Berlin Air Lift
US and British airplanes fly supplies into West Berlin. -
COMECON
Council for Mutual Assistance was the Soviet plan to aid in rebuilding Soviet Bloc nations. -
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization was a military alliance. -
Arms Race
USA and USSR compete in building nuclear weapons. -
Domino Theory
South Vietnam falls to Communism, and other nations East would fall like dominos to Communism. -
Nikita Krushchev
He was a Soviet leader after Stalin's death. -
Mutual Deterence
The ability of USA & USSR to destroy each other acted as a method to avoid war -
Dwight Eisenhower
He was a popular president of the United States. -
De-Staninilization
It was the removal of harsh policies of Stalin's government. -
Warsaw Pact
Military alliance of communist Block nations. -
Sputnik
1st satellite to orbit Earth radio signals back to Earth. -
Fidel Castro
The Communist forces that seized control of Cuba. Soviet supported government set up in Cuba. -
U2
American spy plane that was shot down by USSR -
Yuri Gagarin
The Russian first man to travel in space. -
Bay of Pigs
The Cuban exiles invaded Cuba and led revolt against Castro.. -
John F. Kennedy
He was an American politician who served as our 35th president. -
Berlin Wall Built
It was built to keep East Germans from fleeing to West Germany. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
USSR placed nuclear missiles in Cuba ships. -
Dentente
It was the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries. -
Vietnamization
US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam. -
SALT
The Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty limited the number of nuclear weapons of each nation. -
Perestrokia
Gradual changing of the Soviet economy allowing private enterprise dismantling of national bureaucracy. -
Glasnost
Freedom of expression for Soviet citizens which eased harsh treatment of opponents of the Soviet System. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
East Germany opened to West Germany. -
Mikhail Gorbachev
He was the President of the Soviet Union.
