Honors World history chapter 27  Created by mburns15   29 terms
satellite state  country where the government is formally
independent; the Marshall plan was not meant to shut out the
Soviet Union or these, according to soviet view the Marshall
plan guaranteed "American loans in return for relinquishing by
the European states of their economic and later political
independence  policy of containment  argued by George Kennen in
July 1947; to keep communism in its existing boundaries and
prevent further Soviet aggressive moves; became a U.S. policy;
the split between the U.S. and the Soviet Union had become a
fact of life  arms race  when the U.S and the Soviet Union both
countries built up their armies and weapons; the soviet union
exploded their first atomic bomb in 1949; both sides came to
believe an arsenal of nuclear weapons would prevent war  domino
theory  U.S. policy makers saw conflict in these terms; if the
communist succeeded in Vietnam, other countries in Asia would
fall, like dominoes, to communism