East and West in theGrip of Cold War

Chapter 26

World History: Volume II: Since 1500

pgs. 770-797

People, Places, Ideas• Grand Alliance/Allies*• Iron Curtain• Berlin Wall• Harry Truman*• Truman Doctrine• Marshall Plan• containment• denazification• North Atlantic Treaty Organization

(NATO)• Warsaw Pact• Mao Zedong• Chinese Civil War• Korean War• Ho Chi Minh• Viet Cong (Vietnamese Communists)

• Vietnam War/Vietnam syndrome• Nikita Khrushchev• peaceful coexistence• Radio Liberty/Free Europe• Nonaligned movement• John F. Kennedy• Cuban Missile Crisis• Richard Nixon• detente• Ronald Reagan• Strategic Defense Initiative/Star

Wars• Mikhail Gorbachev• Contras• perestroika

*denotes review term from previous chapter.

Big Questions

Why were the United States and the Soviet Union suspicious of each other after World War II, and what events between 1945 and 1949 heightened the tensions between the two nations?