The Cold War

An international peacekeeping organization to which most nations in the world belong, founded in 1945 to promote world peace, security, and economic development.

A country that is dominated politically and economically by another nation.

American foreign policy designed to prevent any extension of Communist rule to other countries.

A phrase used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe an imaginary line that separated Communist countries in the Soviet bloc of Eastern Europe from countries in Western Europe.

The state of hostility, without direct military conflict, that developed between the United States and the Soviet Union after WWII.

A U.S. policy of providing economic and military aid to free nations threatened by Communist influences. (Specifically, Greece and Turkey)

The program under which the United States supplied economic aid to European nations to help them rebuild after WWII.

A 327-day operation in which U.S. and British planes flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviets blockaded the city in 1948.

A defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European countries, the United States, and Canada.

The leader of the Nationalist government in China, he was supported by the United States.