The United States and the U.S.S.R. during the Cold War were considered...

The period after the Second World War marked by rivalry and tension between the two nuclear superpowers, the United States and the communist government of the Soviet Union.

A secret U.S. project for the construction of the atomic bomb.

The competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union for supremacy in nuclear warfare. Both countries tried to have the largest nuclear arsenals.

The U.S. policy to stop the spread of communism. The US had to use military and non military actions to stop the spread.

A political system in which the government owns all property and dominates all aspects of life in a country.

An economic system based on private property and free enterprise.

A plan that the US came up with to revive war-torn economies of Europe. This plan offered $13 billion in aid to western and Southern Europe.

(North Atlantic Treaty Organization) U.S., Britain, France, and other Western European nations formed a military alliance: attack upon one nation is attack upon all.

Conflict that began with North Korea's invasion of South Korea and came to involve the United Nations (primarily the United States) allying with South Korea and the People's Republic of China allying with North Korea.

A prolonged war (1954-1975) between the communist armies of North Vietnam who were supported by the Chinese and the non-communist armies of South Vietnam who were supported by the United States.

Americans feared that the Soviet Union hoped to spread communism all over the world, overthrowing both democratic and capitalist institutions as it went.

The term associated with Senator Joseph McCarthy who led the search for communists in America during the early 1950s through his leadership in the House Un-American Activities Committee.

In 1962 Cuba's ally, the Soviet Union, placed nuclear missiles in Cuba, threatening the U.S. President Kennedy responded with a blockade of Cuba. This tense situation almost led to nuclear war.

Communist governments in Eastern Europe and the USSR collapsed resulting in a lessening of tensions between the US and the USSR

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