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The Suez Canal
Connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus Suez. -
The Red Scare
A hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. -
Iron Curtain
A barrier that separated the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe -
The Yalta Conference
A meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt -
The Creation of the United Nations
A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, after WWII with the aim of preventing another such conflict. -
End of WWII
The allied powers defeated the Axis powers to end the war, and this was considered the beginning of tensions rising between the Soviet Union and the United States, -
The Long Telegram
A 8,000-word telegram from George Kennan stating what the American government wanted it to. Kennan hated Communism and the Soviet government. -
Truman Doctrine
An American foreign policy with the purpose of countering Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War . -
Marshall Plan
An American initiative to aid Western Europe by giving over $13 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western Europe economies after WWII -
Berlin Airlift
A military operation in the late 1940's that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany had cut off its supply routes. -
The Creation of NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created to unify and strengthen the Western Allies' military response to a possible invasion of Western Europe by the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies. -
McCarthyism
A practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. -
The Korean War
A war between North and South Korea -
The Rosenbergs
Julius and Ethel, who were convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviets were executed. -
Duck and Cover
A drill used and practiced to protect children from a nuclear explosion. -
The Warsaw Pact
A collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War. -
The Eisenhower Doctrine
A country under this doctrine could request American economic assistance and/or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state. -
U-2 Incident
A United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace
