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| A notional barrier that prevents the passage of information or ideas between political entities, in particular. |
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| A state of political hostility existing between countries, characterized by threats, violent propaganda, subversive activities, and other measures short of open warfare, in particular. |
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| The action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits. |
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| an American advisor, diplomat, political scientist, and historian, best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War. |
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| The principle, first expressed in 1947 by US President Truman, that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection. |
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| A program of financial aid and other initiatives, sponsored by the US, designed to boost the economies of western European countries after World War II. |
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| airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin. |
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security. |
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| The Warsaw Pact, otherwise known as the Warsaw Treaty Organization, was an alliance creating an organised – and Russian dominated - military among central and political ties. |
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| A satellite state (sometimes referred to as a client state) is a political term that refers to a country that is formally independent, but under heavy influence or control by another country. |
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| The easing of hostility or strained relations, esp. between countries. |
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| The nuclear arms race was a competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War. |
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| The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty or ABMT) was a treaty between the United States of America and the Soviet Union on the limitation of the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) systems used in defending areas against missile-delivered nuclear weapons. |
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| National Personal Transportation Study. |
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| either of two preliminary five-year agreements between the U.S. and the Soviet Union for the control of certain nuclear weapons, the first concluded in 1972 (SALT I) and the second drafted in 1979 (SALT II) but not ratified. |
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| The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government in 1919 and 1920. This “scare” was caused by fears of subversion by communists in the United States after the Russian Revolution. |
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| George Catlett Marshall (December 31, 1880 - October 16, 1959) was an American military leader, Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense |
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| Truman: elected vice president in Roosevelt's 4th term; became 33rd President of the United States on Roosevelt's death in 1945 and was elected President in 1948; authorized the use of atomic bombs against Japan (1884-1972) |
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| Stalin: Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953) |
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| Churchill: British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953 (1874-1965) |
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