Cold War

A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe.

The principle that the US should give support to countries threatened by Communism.

a system of government through elected representatives

The United States tried to contain Communism in Cuba, North Korea, and Vietnam

The action of preventing the expansion of a countrys or influence. Communism vs. Democracy

A system of government in which the government owns.

was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $12 billion

a country in which another country has power to affect developments in that country

the North Atlantic Treaty Org is a military alliance of European and North American democracies

a country that is independent in the world, but under heavy political and economic influence

Weapons held by a country to discourage an attack by another country.

South Korea is under the United States sphere of influence

Cuba was under the Soviet Union sphere of influence

the notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West