Flashcards: The Cold War
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HistoryofCrawford on February 21, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 United Nations | Group of nations dedicated to international cooperation, peace, and human rights. |
| Truman Doctrine/containment | The US President's idea that Communism must be kept from spreading. |
| Cold War | The period of heightened tension between the Soviet Union and the US. |
| iron curtain | Churchill's name for the European barrier between the free West and the Communist East. |
| Berlin Airlift | When the US dropped supplies in Berlin by plane. |
| NATO | Organization to protect Western Europe from Soviet aggression. |
| Warsaw Pact | Organized to fight America and her allies in case of a war. |
| Nikita Krushchev | Russian soviet dictator who replaced Joseph Stalin. Built the Berlin Wall & led the USSR during the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
| Berlin Wall | This was created to keep east Berliners from defecting to the west. |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | When the USSR and the US came to the edge of nuclear war because of an argument over placing missiles in Cuba. |
| Charles de Gaulle | Leader of resistance in WWII, then president of France's 5th Republic. |