COLD WAR

CONTAINMENT

• it was a U.S. policy that restricted soviet powers and stop the spread of communism so it could find its way to the world

BERLIN WALL

• IT was a barrier that separated west Berlin from east Berlin and Germany tried to isolate the area

DOMINO EFFECT

• This was a belief that if Vietnam fell to communism the rest of Asia would fall, hence the phrase Domino effect

IRON CURTAIN

• A barrier that divided east and west Europe during the cold war

KOREAN WAR

• North Korea invaded south Korea the north was over throned by communist then the U.S. and the U.N. forced the communist back

WARSAW PACT

• This pact created a alliance system with NATO among the soviet nations creating a common defense

NATO

• This was a mutual defense pact formed by western nations in 1949

SUPERPOWERS

• The 2 superpowers were the U.S. and the Soviet Union they helped and gave guidance to the world during the cold war

UNITED NATIONS

• The U.N. is supposed to protect the world and keep peace between all the countries and prevent all wars

MARSHALL PLAN

• It was a treaty between the U.S. and Europe where the U.S. had to pay for all the damages after world war 2

ARMS RACE

• This was a race to see who could get the best equipment and weapons before the other this was mostly between the U.S. and the Soviets their main goal was to get nukes so then it became a nuclear war

VIET CONG

• This is a communist movement called guerrilla where that took place in Vietnam and it made north Korea fight south Korea and with the help of the U.S. the south managed to push them back

COVERT ACTIONS

• It is a foreign policy to advance national interest and to gather traditional intelligence

DÉTENTE

• This is to make countries ease into hostility or even strain relations between each other

DETERRENCE

• It is a use of punishment it is often contrasted with retributivism

This is the reason why the Cold War has change the world a lot in terms of technologies developed, I would be able to take quite a few names but I'm not going to focus on that here's one thing is the space race the soviet state beat every body to then even got a man and a dog in it and put one of the first satellites in space too also all the nuclear warfare is really getting out of hand in the Cold War the USSR and the U.S. we're at war with it and they even tried to make it into a public attention there were also a lot of strides in the Cold War like mineral and earth exploration I could keep going on about things that made the Cold War really bad but the. I would be here for ever and that's why the Cold War had a rally big change on the world.