Cold War Part 1 (Vietnam, Korea, Cuban Missile Crisis)

This supplied $ to European countries to help them rebuild after WWII and stop the spread of communism

The dividing line determined by the UN separating North and South Vietnam

The competition between the USA and the USSR to see who had the most weapons and most destructive weapons

Soviet leader after Stalin (involved with the Cuban Missile Crisis and building the Berlin Wall)

The act of threatening to use force to prevent another nation from attacking you

American policy of trying to stop the spread of communism

The Warsaw Pact was a military alliance between Korea and other Eastern European communist countries

North Korean's used this trail to supply Vietcong with weapons, etc. for war

The competition between the USA and the USSR to see who would have the best space program

South Vietnamese communist guerrillas fighting against USA and South Vietnam

This type of economy is controlled by supply and demand; Also referred to with capitalism

Another word for a blockade; not allowing supplies to enter a country

USSR placed missiles in Cuba, USA blockaded Cuba and we were on the brink of nuclear war

Communist leader of North Vietnam

Winston Churchill's term for the boundary separating democratic Western Europe from Communist Eastern Europe

This US president negotiated the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, created the Peace Corps, and the Alliance for Progress

Demilitarize, meaning an area with all military weapons removed

After WWII, the USA and the USSR were superpowers

A war of words and political ideas between the USA and the USSR

Truman's idea to stop the spread of communism by giving aid to Greece and Turkey

NATO is a military alliance of the USA, Western European Democratic Countries, and

Prime Minister of Great Britain (coins the phrase "iron curtain")