COLD WAR KEY VOCAB.

COLD WAR

• THE COLD WAR INVOLVED THE SOVIET UNION AND THE U.S.
• EVEN THO THEY FOUGHT TOGETHER IN WWII
• Their relation ship was a tense one, this war was going to happen
• And nothing could have stopped it

IRON CURTAIN

• used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe
• the line of demarcation betweenWestern Europe and the Soviet zone of influence

TRUMAN DOCTRINE

• President Truman's policy of providing economic and military
• aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology

MARSHALL PLAN

• program of loans and other economic assistance provided
• by the U.S. government between 1947 and 1952 to help
• western European nations rebuild after World War II

BERLIN AIRLIFT

• airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens
• of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land
• access to Berlin

CONTAINMENT POLICY

• an act or policy of restricting the territorial growth or .
• ideological influence of another, especially a hostile nation

MAO ZEDONG

• 1893–1976, Chinese Communist leader: chairman of the
• People's Republic of China 1949–59; chairman of the
• Chinese Communist Party 1943–76

KOREAN WAR

• war between North and South Korea: a war that lasted
• from 1950 to 1953 between North Korea, and its ally
• China, and South Korea, supported by UnitedNations
• troops, especially from the United States

SPUTNIK

• Soviet satellite: one of a series of ten artificial
• Earth-orbiting satellites launched by the
• former Soviet Union starting in 1957

ROSENBURG TEST