Chapter 13 - The Cold War Vocabulary Review

An Org. providing technical assistance, helping people outside the US to understand US culture?

Military alliance of European & North American democracies founded after WWII?

Principle that US should give support to countries threatened by communist insurrection?

Confrontation between the US & USSR in 1962 over the presence of nuclear silos in Cuba?

Vociferous campaign vs alleged communists in US govt carried out under Sen Joseph McCarthy?

Fortified concrete & wire barrier that separated East & West Berlin (1961-1989)? Symbol of USSR

Cold War, US Geopolitical strategy to stop the expansion & prevent the spread of communism?

The term for the spread of nuclear weapons rapidly during the Cold War btw the US & USSR?

Who was the Communist dictator of Cuba during the Cold War?

US & British military operation in 1948-49, that brought supplies into West Berlin?

Pres. of US that led us into the Space Race, founded the Green Berets and the Peace Corps?

Competition for superiority, development & accumulation of weapons, btw US & USSR in Cold War?

Program the US gave economic aid to European countries to rebuild after the devastation of WWII

A war (1950-53) btw the UN, supported by the US, and communist North Korea (38th Parallel)?