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| The state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet union countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1991. |
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| The notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989. |
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| Containment was a United States policy using military, economic, and diplomatic strategies to stall the spread of communism, enhance America’s security and influence abroad, and prevent a "domino effect". |
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| American adviser, 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). This alliance of sixteen sovereign Euro-Atlantic countries is dedicated to the proposition of maintaining democratic freedom by means of collective defense. |
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| an alliance creating an organized – 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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| A competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons, esp. between the US and the former Soviet Union 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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| Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons |
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| two rounds of bilateral talks and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union—the Cold War superpowers—on the issue of armament control. |
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| The Red Scare was a period in which many Americans feared that communism would thrive, and the capitalist system in the United States would be threatened. |
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| American military leader, Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense. |
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| 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953). As President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third vice president and the 34th Vice President of the United States (1945), he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his historic fourth term. |
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| Leader of the Soviet Union. |
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| British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. |
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