The Berlin Blockade , The Berlin Airlift, The Berlin Wall, New World Order After WWII, Yalta Conference, M.A.D, Iron Curtain, Marshall Plan, Molotov Plan, Comintern, Truman Doctorine, Brinksmanship, Domino theory,
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| 2378930306 | The Berlin Blockade | Soviets close off roads to Berlin, this way they can't get any food. The soviets are daring the US to go to war | 0 | |
| 2378930307 | The Berlin Airlift | If the US gives up, USSR takes West Berlin. US begins an airlift to bring in food/clothes/etc. | 1 | |
| 2378930308 | The Berlin wall | Soviets make a wall around West Berlin, to keep people from running West. | 2 | |
| 2378930309 | New World Order After WWII | USA and Russia become superpowers, other nations become bankrupted by WWII | 3 | |
| 2378930310 | Yalta Conference | At the Yalta Conference , they agreed on self-determination. United Nations was created and it is where they decided to split up Germany | 4 | |
| 2378930311 | M.A.D | Mutually Assured Destruction. If one country bombs another their allies will bomb each other until the planet is destroyed and alll living things are dead. | 5 | |
| 2378930312 | Iron Curtain | (HT) , Term used by Churchill in 1946 to describe the growing East-West divide in postwar Europe between communist and democratic nations | 6 | |
| 2378930313 | truman doctrine | US gives money to countries to stay capitalist | 7 | |
| 2378930314 | brinksmanship | pushing disaster going to edge of war | 8 | |
| 2378930315 | domino theory | if one country became communist it will spread to the countries in contact until only us was capitalist | 9 | |
| 2378930316 | comintern | commmunists spys live in us report to communists and tell them how its to live in a capitalist envornment | 10 | |
| 2378930317 | NATO | North Atlantic Treaty organization Helped western European countries | 11 | |
| 2378930318 | warsawpact | helps iron curtain countries | 12 | |
| 2378930319 | Marshall plan | Us paid to keep europe capitalist USSR rejects it | 13 | |
| 2378930320 | Molotov plan | soviet response aid only given to communist countries | 14 | |
| 2378930321 | containment | when is the truman doctrine, the us made sure/tried to stop communisim from spreading | 15 | |
| 2378930322 | cuban missle crisis | closest to ending life on earth. , The Soviet Union was secretly building nuclear missile launch sites in Cuba, which could have been used for a sneak-attack on the U.S. The U.S. blockaded Cuba until the U.S.S.R. agreed to dismantle the missile silos. | 16 | |
| 2378930664 | Eisenhower doctorine | a country could request American economic assistance and/or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state | 17 | |
| 2378931042 | Bay of Pigs | Bay of Pigs Invasion, 1961, an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles, supported by the U.S. government. On Apr. 17, 1961, an armed force of about 1,500 Cuban exiles landed in the Bahía de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs) on the south coast of Cuba | 18 | |
| 2378931704 | McCarthyism | practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence | 19 | |
| 2378932430 | dixiecrats | The States' Rights Democratic Party opposed racial integration and wanted to retain Jim Crow laws and white supremacy in the face of possible federal intervention. | 20 | |
| 2378933078 | George Kennan | During the late 1940s, his writings inspired the Truman Doctrine and the U.S. foreign policy of "containing" the Soviet Union. His "Long Telegram" from Moscow during 1946 and the subsequent 1947 article "The Sources of Soviet Conduct" argued that the Soviet regime was inherently expansionist and that its influence had to be "contained" in areas of vital strategic importance to the United States. These texts provided justification for the Truman administration's new anti-Soviet policy. Kennan played a major role in the development of definitive Cold War programs and institutions, notably the Marshall Plan. | 21 |
