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confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba; one of the “hottest” periods of the cold war

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Koreanconflict, fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). The war began in 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea

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the United States, France, Great Britain, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand and Pakistan formed the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, or SEATO. SEATO Meeting in Manila. The purpose of the organization was to prevent communism from gaining ground in the region

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important division of the United Nations that contains five permanent members — the United States, Britain, China, France, and Russia — and ten rotating members. It is often called into session to respond quickly to international crises

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a belief or set of beliefs held and taught by a Church, political party, or other group

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a competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons, especially between the US and the former Soviet Union during the Cold War

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"police action" is a euphemism for a military actionundertaken without a formal declaration of war. Since World War II, formal declarations of war have been rare, especially actions conducted by developed nations in connection with the Cold War.

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a country's military establishment and those industries producing arms or other military materials, regarded as a powerful vested interest

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a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs

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the action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits

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a list of people or things that are regarded as unacceptable or untrustworthy and should be excluded or avoided

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the art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, especially in politics

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the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries

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the profession, activity, or skill of managing international relations, typically by a country's representatives abroad

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a vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy in the period 1950–54. Many of the accused were blacklisted or lost their jobs, although most did not in fact belong to the Communist Party

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an international organization formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among its member countries.

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the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or Communist insurrection. First expressed in 1947 by US President Truman in a speech to Congress seeking aid for Greece and Turkey, the doctrine was seen by the Communists as an open declaration of the Cold War

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Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland between the Soviet Union and seven Eastern Bloc satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe

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main purpose was to defend each other from the possibility of communist Soviet Union taking control of their nation

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The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989

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a notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989

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a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare