Cold War

4. a policy to limit involvement in international matters
5. an agreement between two or more nations to co-operate for specific purposes
8. the kind of zone the Eastern European countries were suppose to be to Stalin’s USSR safe
9. War in this country has been said to be the USSR’s Vietnam
10. a foreign policy to discourage a country from taking military action often through the implied threat that a massive counter-attack would be the result
12. site of important conference where WW II Allies developed a post-war plan for Europe
15. site of a post-war conference where ideological differences between communists and liberal democracies resulted in little talking.
16. What Stalin’s curtain was made of, at least according to Churchill
18. _____ race: a competition among countries to determine which country would possess the most weapons
20. a rivalry, after World War II, between democratic countries and the Soviet Union and its satellite states
22. __________ of power: the distribution of power so that no country will dominate or be stronger than another country
23. a very powerful and influential nation
24. his doctrine was an American policy to provide economic assistance to war-torn countries that needed to rebuild and to countries threatened by or attracted to communism

1. 1950s war where the UN sent in troops to stop communist expansionism
2. the kind of war where superpowers let other countries do the real fighting in their ideological battle
3. an American policy to limit communist expansion in Europe and Asia
4. sphere of __________: a territorial area over which one nation has the main political or economic influence
6. the policy of expanding a nation’s territory or influence
7. the practice, especially in international politics, of seeking advantage by creating the impression that one is willing and able to push a highly dangerous situation to the limit rather than concede
11. __________ Pact: Military alliance of the Soviet Union and its satellite states
13. Costly war where, despite sending in thousands of troops, the US failed to prevent a communist victory
14. The idea of having lots of nuclear weapons meant you’d have to be this to start a war
17. Alliance that provided collective security to western liberal democracies
19. ______ Plan: an American policy of providing economic aid to countries affected by World War II
21. a period of reduced tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union from 1971 to 1979