AMSCO AP World 8.2 The Cold War question n answers graded A+ 2023/2024

AMSCO AP World 8.2 The Cold WarUnited Nations (UN) - correct answers an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security Iron Curtain - correct answers Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West. satellite countries - correct answers small states that are economically or politically dependent on a larger, more powerful state containment - correct answers American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world Truman Doctrine - correct answers a strong statement that the United States would do what it had to do to stop the spread of communism Non-Aligned Movement - correct answers The group of nations that didn't side with either the US or the USSR during the Cold War. mutual assured destruction - correct answers regardless of who started the Cold War, both would be obliterated by the end of it Sputnik - correct answers First artificial Earth satellite, it was launched by Moscow in 1957 and sparked U.S. fears of Soviet dominance in technology and outer space. It led to the creation of NASA and the space race. Marshall Plan - correct answers A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe () Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) - correct answers An economic organization of Communist states meant to help rebuild East Block under Soviet auspices.