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| A state of political hostility existing between countries, characterized by threats, violent propaganda, subversive activities, and other measures short of open warfare, in particular. |
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| A notional barrier that prevents the passage of information or ideas between political entities, in particular |
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| The action or policy of preventing the expansion of a hostile country or influence |
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| An American advisor, 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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| The US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection. |
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| A program of financial aid and other initiatives, sponsored by the US, designed to boost the economies of western European countries after World War II. |
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| Airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
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| A treaty of mutual defense and military aid signed at Warsaw on May 14, 1955, by communist states of Europe under Soviet influence, in response to the admission of West Germany to NATO.The pact was dissolved in 1991. |
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| A satellite state is a political term that refers to a country that is formally independent, but under heavy influence or control by another country. |
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| he easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries. |
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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 was a treaty between the United States of America and the Soviet Union on the limitation of the anti-ballistic missile systems used in defending areas against missile-delivered nuclear weapons. |
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| the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty is a historic global agreement whose aim is to discourage the circulation of signatures for Nuclear Weapons in the year 1968. The Contract was enforced in 1970. |
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Salt 1: Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and an interim agreement between the Soviet Union and the United States.
Salt 2: SALT II was 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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| McCarthyism coincided with increased popular fear of communist espionage consequent to a Soviet Eastern Europe, the Berlin Blockade (1948–49), the Chinese Civil War, the confessions of spying for the Soviet Union given by several high-ranking U.S. government officials, and the Korean War. |
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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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| He became 33rd President of the United States on Roosevelt's death in 1945 and was elected President in 1948; authorized the use of atomic bombs against Japan. |
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| Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition. |
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| British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953. |
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