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| The Cold War is the name given to the relationship that developed primarily between the USA and the USSR after World War Two. |
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| The concept of the Iron Curtain symbolized the ideological fighting and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1989. |
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| Containment was a United States policy using military, economic, and diplomatic strategies to stall the spread of communism |
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| an American adviser, diplomat, political scientist and historian, best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War. |
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| a policy set forth by U.S. President Harry S Truman on March 12, 1947 stating that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere. |
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| the large-scale American program to aid Europe where the United States gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to combat the spread of Soviet communism |
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| Berlin Airlift to carry supplies to the people in West Berlin. |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
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| a mutual defense treaty subscribed to by eight communist states in Eastern Europe. |
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| The satellite nations are the regions between Germany and russia that were formed with the assistance of the UN after the end of WWII. |
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| is the easing of strained relations, especially in a political situation. |
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| a competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War. |
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| The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty or ABMT) was a treaty between the United States of America and the Soviet Union on the limitation of the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) systems used in defending areas against missile-delivered nuclear weapons |
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| National Personal Transportation Study |
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The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks refers to two rounds of bilateral talks and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union.
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks refers to two rounds of bilateral talks and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union |
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| The term Red Scare denotes two distinct periods of strong anti-Communism in the United States: the First Red Scare, from 1917 to 1920, and the Second Red Scare, from 1947 to 1957. The First Red Scare was about worker (socialist) revolution and political radicalism |
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| an American military leader, Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense |
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| was the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953). |
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| was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. |
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| was a British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War |
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