Cold War Talks
Cold War The Competition that developed between the U.S. and the USSR for power and influence in the world.
Collective Security Mutual Military Assistance
Arms Race The Struggle to gain weapons superiority.
Nuclear Deterrence The policy of making the military power of the U.S. and its allies so strong that no enemy would dare attack for fear of retaliation.
Iron Curtain The area of Communist domination and oppression. First used by Winston Churchill in March 1946 in Fulton Missouri, “ An iron curtain has descended across the continent”
Containment The American Policy of trying to stop the spread of Communism from spreading to any other parts of the World.
Warsaw Pact A response to NATO that consisted of the Soviet Union and its satellite nations in Eastern Union.
Brinkmanship Risking nuclear war to protect American national interest
Domino Theory If one of Southeast Asian nations falls to Communism, the others would also fall.
NATO A protective alliance that included the US, and its allies and agreed that “an armed attack against one or more of them shall be considered an attack against them all.”