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| The conflit between the communist nations led by the Soviet union and the democratic nations led by the U.S. |
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| It was a post-war speech givin by Winston Churchill to 40,000 people. It 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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| The blocking of another nations attemps to spread communisum influence. |
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| Represented the U.S. in Prague for a year during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia and in Berlin for over two years. |
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| It offered support to all countries that declined communisum, attempting to conatain it, and untimately. |
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| (Officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was 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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| Supply of vital necessities to West Berlin by air transport primarily under U.S. auspices. |
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| It stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization. This alliance of sixteen sovereign Euro-Atlantic countries is dedicated to the proposition of maintaining democratic freedom by means of collective defence. |
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| Military alliance of the Soviet Union, Albania (until 1968), Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania, formed in 1955 in response to West Germany's entry into NATO. |
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| Is a political term that refers to a country that is formally independent, but under heavy political and economic influence or control by another country. |
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| A relaxing or easing, as of tension between rivals. |
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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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| Advanced Biomedical Technologies Program. |
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| Non-Proliferation Treaty (nuclear weapons). |
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| Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Agreement, SALT I froze the number of strategic ballistic missile launchers at existing levels, and provided for the addition of new submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) launchers only after the same number of older intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and SLBM launchers had been dismantled. |
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| A controversial experiment of negotiations between Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev from 1977 to 1979 between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, which sought to curtail the manufacture of strategic nuclear weapons. |
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| Period of anticommunist hysteria in United States from 1918–1920, culminating in the Palmer Raids; also invoked to describe the resumption of anticommunist activities in the late 1940's and early 1950's. |
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| served in the U.S. Army in France during World War I, emerging as aide-de-camp to General John Joseph Pershing. He was General and secertary of the state. |
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| Became president of the United States after the death of Franklin Roosevelt on 12 April 1945. |
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| Grabbed control of the Soviet Union after the death of V.I. Lenin in 1924. |
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| Soldier, politician and finally a prime minister, was one of Britain's greatest 20th-century heroes. |
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