POLICY OF CONTAINMENT US POLICY TO KEEP COMMUNISM WITHIN ITS EXISTING BOUNDARIES AND PREVENT FURTHER SOVIET AGGRESSIVE MOVES

TRUMAN DOCTRINE 1947, PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S POLICY OF PROVIDING ECONOMIC AND MILITARY AID TO ANY COUNTRY THREATENED BY COMMUNISM OR TOTALITARIAN IDEOLOGY

SATELLITE STATE INDEPENDENT NATION UNDER THE CONTROL OF A MORE POWERFUL NATION

COLD WAR A CONFLICT THAT WAS BETWEEN THE US AND THE SOVIET UNION. THE NATIONS NEVER DIRECTLY CONFRONTED EACH OTHER ON THE BATTLEFIELD BUT DEADLY THREATS WENT ON FOR YEARS.

JOSEPH STALIN LEADER OF THE SOVIET UNION DURING WWII

CHINESE CIVIL WAR WAR BETWEEN COMMUNIST MAO ZEDONG AND NATIONALIST CHAING-KAI SHEK. THE COMMUNISTS TOOK OVER AND FORCED THE NATIONALISTS TO RETREAT TO TAIWAN

MAO ZEDONG CHINESE COMMUNIST LEADER