Yalta and Potsdam Conference - Meetings between Allied leaders during WWII which set the tone for the Cold War., The "Iron Curtain" - Imaginary line separating Soviet controlled Eastern European communist countries and Wester European democracies., NATO - Military alliance created in 1949 between U.S. and Western Europe to oppose communism., Warsaw Pact - Military defence alliance created in 1955 for communist countries in Eastern Europe to confront NATO., George Kennan’s “Long Telegram” - 1946 message that recommended America's policy of containment in regards to communism., Truman Doctrine - Established in 1947, it provided financial aid to countries the opposed communism., Korean War - Conflict from 1950-1953 after communist North Korea invaded South Korea., Berlin Airlift - U.S. provided material aid to West Berlin in 1948 after the Soviet Union put a blockade on the city., Berlin - City in East Germany separated by a wall that divided free West Germany and communist East Germany., Cuban Missile Crisis - Near escalation after discovery of Soviet Missiles off the coast of the U.S. in 1962., Domino Theory - Belief that if one country fell to communism, others would, leading us into the Vietnam War., Tet Offensive - Attack in 1968 that played an important role in weakening U.S. public support for the war in Vietnam, Kent State Shooting - Occured in 1970 during a Vietnam War protest leading to the death of four dead in Ohio., Brinkmanship - Pushing dangerous situations to the edge of war to gain an advantage., Sputnik - Soviet satellite that initiated U.S. involvment in the space race, Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) - Cold War concept that the use of nuclear weapons by one country would lead to retalition and destruction., McCarthyism - Campaign in the 1950s to persecute communist sympathizers in the U.S. characterized by outrageous claims with little to no evidence., Berlin Wall - Torn down in 1989, symbolizing the end of the Cold War.,

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