Unit 7: Early Cold War

  • Communism

    a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state
  • Period: to

    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

    a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia
  • domino theory

    a theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall
  • United Nations formed

  • Containment

    US policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad
  • Truman Doctrine

    U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism
  • 22nd Amendment

    Prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again
  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II
  • NATO established

  • Arms Race/Space Race

    competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War
  • Period: to

    Korean War

  • Rosenbergs Trial

  • First H-bomb detonated by the US

  • Jonas Salk invents the Pollio Vaccine

  • USSR launches Sputnik