coined by Winston Churchill, the term describes how the world became divided with the Soviet Union and its satellite nations on one side and the U.S.-led Western democracies on the other.

-50 countries set up this international body in 1945, pledging to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.”

established to protect the “inherent dignity and the equal and unalienable rights of all members of the human family….”

US financial plan to provide massive financial aid to rebuild European economies, as well as prevent the spread of communism.

Formed in 1949 with the signing of the Washington Treaty, it is a security alliance of 30 countries from North America and Europe. The fundamental goal is to safeguard the Allies’ freedom and security by political and military means.

a collective defense treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania (Albania withdrew in 1968)

the “Big Three” (Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin) met here to decide war strategy and make plans for a postwar world.

Follow up from the Yalta Conference, organized post war Germany into occupied zones, also outlined terms of peace in Japan

the policy for preventing the expansion of communism throughout the world.

In 1961, it was built by East Germany to stop people from leaving. It was significant in the Cold War because it was a symbol of the divide between democracy and communism in Europe.

marks the moment in which the Cold War came closest to escalating into a nuclear war.

helped India to develop a closer relationship with the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

British Prime Minister who forged a close relationship with the United States and supported U.S. foreign policy.

(Jiang Jieshi), at the end of the Chinese Civil War, he fled to the island of Formosa and helped to establish Taiwan.

(Mao Zedong)- at the end of the Chinese Civil War, he remained on mainland China and set up a communist government.

reformed China’s communist economy to a market economy, leading to rapid economic growth.

Communist leader of this Vietnamese independence movement

southern revolutionaries who formed the National Liberation Front and fought for the unification of Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh’s rule

withdrawing American troops and replacing them with South Vietnamese forces while maintaining military aid to the South Vietnamese

Soviet leader who made major contributions to events in the second half of the twentieth century.

meaning openness, the People in the Soviet Union were allowed more freedom of expression.

restructured the Soviet economy and allowed some private business