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Alliance: a union or association formed for mutual benefit, especially between countries or organizations. -
Marshall plan: An american initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe. The United States transferred over $13 billion in economic recovery programs to Western European economies after the end of World War II.
Policy of containment: A foreign policy of the United States and its allies to prevent the spread of communism after the end of World War II. -
Berlin blockade: an international crisis that arose from an attempt by the Soviet Union, to force the Western Allied powers (the United States, the United Kingdom, and France) to abandon their post-World War II jurisdictions in West Berlin. -
NATO: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an international political and military organization with the aim of guaranteeing the freedom and security of its members through political and military means. -
Proxy war: a war fought between groups of smaller countries that each represent the interests of other larger powers, and may have help and support from these.
Korean War: was conflict between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) in which at least 2.5 million persons lost their lives. The war reached international proportions in June 1950 when North Korea, supplied and advised by the Soviet Union, invaded the South. -
Warsaw pact: was a collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe.
Collective security: a system by which states have attempted to prevent or stop wars. Under a collective security arrangement, an aggressor against any one state is considered an aggressor against all other states, which act together to repel the aggressor. -
Hungarian uprising: a countrywide revolution against the Stalinist government of the Hungarian People's Republic and the Hungarian domestic policies imposed by the USSR -
Peaceful coexistence: a theory developed and applied by the Soviet Union at various points during the Cold War in the context of primarily Marxist–Leninist foreign policy and was adopted by Soviet-allied socialist states that they could peacefully coexist with the capitalist bloc -
Berlin wall: was built during the Cold War to prevent its population from escaping Soviet-controlled East Berlin to West Berlin, which was controlled by the major Western Allies. It divided the city of Berlin into two physically and ideologically contrasting zones. -
Cuban missile crisis: a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the closest the two superpowers came to nuclear conflict.
Brinkmanship: practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, especially in politics. -
Prague spring: a period of political liberalization and mass protest in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.
Brezhnev Doctrine: a Soviet foreign policy that proclaimed any threat to socialist rule in any state of the Soviet bloc in Central and Eastern Europe was a threat to them all, and therefore justified the intervention of fellow socialist states. -
Nuclear non-proliferation treaty: a landmark international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament and general and complete disarmament. -
Helsinki Accords: an effort to reduce tension between the Soviet and Western blocs by securing their common acceptance of the post-World War II status quo in Europe.
Detente: is the relaxation of strained relations, especially political by verbal communication. -
Vietnam war: a long, conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The conflict was intensified by the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Domino theory: a theory that was prominent in the United States from the 1950s to the 1980s which posited that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect. -
Soviet invasion of afghanistan: the Soviet Union invades under the pretext of upholding the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty of 1978. As midnight approached, the Soviets organized a massive military airlift into Kabul, involving an estimated 280 transport aircraft and three divisions of almost 8,500 men each. -
Polands solidarity movement: In the 1980s, solidarity was a broad anti-bureaucratic social movement, using methods of civil resistance to advance the causes of workers' rights and social change. Government attempts in the early 1980s to destroy the union through the imposition of martial law in Poland and the use of political repression failed. -
A year later Germany is reunified. -
Deterrence: the action of discouraging an action or event through instilling doubt, or fear about the consequences. -
This lead to some members wanting to join nato. -
Cold war: a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, which began following World War II.