| Joseph Stalin | | Leader of Soviet Union after WWII |
| Cold War | | State of hostility between the Soviet Union and the U.S. but without military action |
| capitalism | | Germany was divided into four of these after WWII |
| Greece | | U.S. policy of sending aid to any nation trying to prevent a Communist takeover |
| Turkey | | Effort to block Soviet influence by making alliances and supporting weaker nations |
| NATO | | Program under which the U.S. gave economic aid to rebuild postwar Western Europe |
| Potsdam | | Country that received aid under the Truman Doctrine |
| satellite nation | | Conference where Stalin stated that the Soviet Union would not allow free elections in its occupied territories |
| iron curtain | | Resupply of West Berlin by U.S. and British planes during Soviet blockade of 1948 |
| Truman Doctrine | | Type of economic system in the U.S. |
| Berlin Airlift | | Defensive military alliance of the U.S., Canada, and ten European nations |
| Eastern | | The division of Europe between free and communist countries |
| zones | | Country that received aid under the Truman Doctrine |
| containment | | The Soviet sphere of influence was in this half of Europe |
| Marshall Plan | | Peacekeeping group of countries after WWII |
| United Nations | | Country dominated by the Soviet Union |