Cold War

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

The fear of communism spreading to the free world.

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

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

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

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.         

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

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

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

Line separating Eastern Communist Europe and Western Democratic Europe.

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

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

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

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

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

Threatening an enemy with massive military retaliation for any aggression.

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

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

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