Containment
Containment is the term used to refer to the U.S. policy stating that any attempt to spread communism would be seen as a threat to the democratic nations of the world.
This allowed the US to fight back at the communists to contain their ideas to one place.
This allowed the US to fight back at the communists to contain their ideas to one place.
Iron Curtain
Iron Curtain is a term used to describe the boundary that separated the Warsaw Pact countries from the NATO countries from about 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
Marshall Plan
George C. Marshall, the U.S. Secretary of State, came up with this plan. It stated that the United States of America would help by providing economical support and equipment to help Europe's economies rebuild themselves.
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was a very simple warning clearly made to the USSR that the USA would help support any nation that was being threatened by a takeover by an armed minority
Brinkmanship
Brinkmanship was the practice of pushing dangerous events to the verge of disaster in order to achieve the outcome that is best for you.
In the Cold War, brinkmanship was constant competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Americans used the fear of a nuclear war in order to get what they wanted during this war.
"John Dulles described brinkmanship as 'The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you cannot master it, you inevitably get into war. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.'"
In the Cold War, brinkmanship was constant competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Americans used the fear of a nuclear war in order to get what they wanted during this war.
"John Dulles described brinkmanship as 'The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you cannot master it, you inevitably get into war. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.'"
Detente
The general easing of tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States which began in 1971, as a foreign policy of U.S. presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
French word meaning "release of tensions."
French word meaning "release of tensions."
Star Wars
Reagan presented the idea of the creation of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). This was a project that would make a space-based anti-missile system. It was meant to protect the United States from the Soviet Union's attack by interrupting the missiles' path as they were headed towards the U.S.
Reagan Doctrine
The Reagan Doctrine was the foreign policy in the United States, put into action by Ronald Reagan during his presidency, to help get rid of the communist governments in Africa, Asia, and Latin America that were supported by the Soviet Union. Use of this plan provided both open and private support to movements in Soviet-supported communist countries.
This doctrine was the foreign policy of the United States from about 1980 to 1991.
This doctrine was the foreign policy of the United States from about 1980 to 1991.