Iron Curtain Speech- Churchill see blog before
Domain Theory (Effect)- 1954 and through cold war- promoted by US gov- under the influence of communism- one country falls to communism others will follow
Policy of Containment- a diplomatic strategy by the US to stop communism
Truman Doctrine- march 12, 1947 - Truman asked congress for 400 million dollars to help Turkey and Greece
Marshall Plan- European recovery program- US helped rebuild Europe after WWII so there is no more communism
Brinkmanship- pushing military to the point of war but not actually going to war
Massive retaliation/Mutual Deterrence/ Mutual Assured Destruction-we nuke them they nike us kinda thing
NATO vs. Warsaw Pact- NATO is a defensive alliance with US, Canada, and Europe. Warsaw was created by the communist states and its their equivalent of NATO
CIA vs. KGB- CIA= US intelligence gathering agency. KGB= USSR spy agency. We spied on each other
Peaceful coexistence- theory developed by soviet union that they can live peacefully with the socialists
De-Stalinization- Khrushchev said that they need to stop doing some of the stuff Stalin started
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