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Cold War
a period of great tension between the United States and the Soviet Union
Containment
The American policy of limiting Communism and preventing expansion
The Iron Curtain
Imaginary wall diving western and Eastern Europe, as described by Winston Churchill
Warsaw Pact
military alliance of the Soviet Union and its satellite states
Truman Doctrine
U.S. policy to provide economic and military aid to any nation threatened by communism
Berlin Wall
Fortified concrete and wire barrier that separated East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
Berlin Airlift
The US and Britain flew food and supplies to Berlin for almost a year
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization- military alliance formed to counter Soviet expansion
Rosenberg Trial
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of selling atomic secrets to the USSR and executed.
HUAC
Congressional committee that investigated possible subversive activities within the US
Massive Retaliation
The doctrine upon which Eisenhower and Dulles based American nuclear policy in the 1950s
Bay of Pigs
Failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA
Cuban Missile Crisis
The 1962 confrontation bewteen US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba.
38th Parallel
Dividing line between North and South Korea
Ho Chi Minh
Communist leader of North Vietnam
Tet Offensive
1968 attack by Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces throughout South Vietnam
