ss Unit 7, Chapter 20, Lesson 1
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- Cold War
- the tension between the Soviet Union and the US after WWII
- Berlin airlift
- Truman's transport of supplies to Berlin, by airplane, after Stalin stopped trafic from going there
- Truman Doctrine
- US president Harry S. Truman's commitment of the US military to help nations resisting communism
- Warsaw Pact
- a military alliance of the communist countries of Eastern Europe signed after WWII
- Cuba
- Caribbean nation in which the Soviet Union attempted to build missle bases in 1962
- nuclear
- atomic
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
- a military alliance set up by the US and its Western Allies after WWII
- Nikita Khrushchev
- 1894 - 1971 leader of the Soviet Communist Party in the 1950s and 1960s who divided Berlin with a wall and tried to build missle bases in Cuba
- Berlin
- the capital of Germany and site of the Berlin Conference in 1884
- East Germany
- a former country created by the Soviet Union after WWII
- West Germany
- a former European country created by the Allies after WWII
- containment
- a policy of preventing Soviet communism from spreading into new countries or states
- John F. Kennedy
- 1917 - 1963 35th president of the US who prevented the Soviet Union from building missle bases in Cuba