Cold War

State of hostility without direct military conflict occurring between US and USSR after WW 2

Threatening an enemy with massive military retaliation for any aggression.

A concrete wall separating East/West Berlin to prevent people from escaping East Berlin.      

Line separating Eastern Communist Europe and Western Democratic Europe.

Underground space many Americans put in backyards to help protect in case of nuclear attack.  

The US policy to block the spread of Soviet/communist influence.

A 327 day operation in which US and British planes dropped supplies to West Berlin.  

North Atlantic Treaty Organization- alliance between western democracies to protect from USSR.

Mutual Assured Destruction- not going to war since both countries will be destroyed.

Cold war competition between the US and Soviet Union for spaceflight supremacy.  

Failed invasion of Communist controlled Cuba by CIA trained guerrillas backed by JFK.

An economic system where a totalitarian government owns & controls business and wealth.

A military alliance formed in 1955 by the USSR and the Eastern European satellites.

Verbal attacks- without evidence accusing certain Americans of being Communists.

the easing of tensions between US & USSR Flexible policy marked by willingness to negotiate. 

The South Vietnamese Communists guerrillas fighting the US in South Vietnam.        

13 day crisis where US and USSR came close to nuclear war over soviet missiles in Cuba.     

The fear of communism spreading to the free world.

Policy stating us would provide economic and military aid to nations threatened by communism

Highway system (led by president Eisenhower) that connected US states and cities.