Unresolved Global Conflict Vocab Review

Shutting off of a port to keep people or supplies moving in or out.

• Arms Race

• Blockade

• Iron Curtain

• SuperpowerBri

The leader of the communist revolution in Cuba during the 1950's who became an anti-American dictator.

• Truman

• Detente

• Gorbachev

• Fidel Castro

An attempt by the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.) in 1962 to place nuclear missiles in Cuba directed towards the united States

• Arms Race

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Truman Doctrine

• Domino Theory

A competition between superpowers to develop new, more deadly nucear and conventional weapons.

• Containment

• N.A.T.O.

• Missile Crisis

• Arms Race

The state of tension and hostility between the US and the Soviet Union after 1945 without large scale armed conflict between major powers.

• Warm War

• Cold War

• NATO

• Blockade

The Cold War policy of limiting the spread of communism.

• Domino Theory

• Marshall Plan

• Cold War

• Containment

Belief that if one nation fell to communism, neighboring nations would also fall.

• Iron Curtain

• Domino Theory

• Superpower

• Truman Doctrine

The imaginary line through Europe that divided the democracies of the West from communist countries of the East.

• Iron Curtain

• NATO

• Containment

• Warsaw Pact

The Food and economic aid package launched by the US to help European countries rebuild after WWII.

• Satellites

• Warsaw Pact

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

The Military alliance for mutual defense between Canada and the US, and Western nations.

• NATO

• Superpower

• Warsaw Pact

• Iron Cutain