American History Units 7 &8

A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952)

1947 - Stated that the U.S. would support any nation threatened by Communism.

American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world

Airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of West Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin

A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region

North Atlantic Treaty Organization: Alliance of the allied powers against the Soviets

An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO

A political and economic system where factors of production are collectively owned and directed by the state.

An economic system based on private property and free enterprise.

Cold war competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union to build up their respective armed forces and weapons

(MAD) if either US or the USSR was hit with a nuclear weapons they would respond with the same

1962 crisis that arose between the United States and the Soviet Union over a Soviet attempt to deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba

President during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks; international treaties b/w US and USSR on the limitation of nuclear weapons.

US President that helped end the Cold War with the Soviet Union.