The Cold War Vocab

3. Wars that are fought between to smaller countries will the help and aid of bigger countries(USA,USSR).
5. American policy of containing communism to the USSR borders.
7. Established that the USA would assist European nations that where crippled from WW2.
9. Established that the USA would assist countries under threat of the USSR and communism.
10. When two countries get extremely close to the out break of war, but never cross that line.
12. When both the United States and the USSR build up their stores of atomic weapons.
13. The idea that if one country falls to communism, then they all will follow.

1. Metaphorical border between Western Europe and Eastern Europe
2. The ideology based in free markets and private ownership. (USA)
4. The ideology based in collective ownership and equality. (USSR)
6. The idea that if either the USA or the USSR drops atomic bombs, then a nuclear war will break out, killing everyone.
8. Leader of the Soviet Union (USSR)1941-1953
11. President of the United States. 1945-1953