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Connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus Suez.
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A hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S.
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A barrier that separated the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe
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A meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, after WWII with the aim of preventing another such conflict.
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The allied powers defeated the Axis powers to end the war, and this was considered the beginning of tensions rising between the Soviet Union and the United States,
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A 8,000-word telegram from George Kennan stating what the American government wanted it to. Kennan hated Communism and the Soviet government.
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An American foreign policy with the purpose of countering Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War .
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An American initiative to aid Western Europe by giving over $13 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western Europe economies after WWII
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A military operation in the late 1940's that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany had cut off its supply routes.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created to unify and strengthen the Western Allies' military response to a possible invasion of Western Europe by the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies.
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A practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.
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A war between North and South Korea
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Julius and Ethel, who were convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviets were executed.
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A drill used and practiced to protect children from a nuclear explosion.
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A collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War.
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A country under this doctrine could request American economic assistance and/or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state.
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A United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace
