Cold War

Question 1

Cold War

Answer 1

• period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II and lasted to 1991, the fall of the Soviet Union.

Question 2

Command Economy

Answer 2

• central governmental authority dictates the levels of production and prices; Most industries in command economies are publicly owned.

Question 3

Demilitarized

Answer 3

Reduction of state of armed forces

Question 4

Democracy

Answer 4

Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives

Question 5

NATO

Answer 5

• (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) -
• intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American;
• member states agree to defend each other against attacks by third parties
• During the Cold War, NATO operated as a check on the threat posed by the Soviet Union

Question 6

Truman Doctrine

Answer 6

• pledged American “support for democracies against authoritarian threats”
• set the stage for the Cold war and the US’s hostile attitude towards the USSR, labeling them as a threat to democracy

Question 7

USSR - Warsaw Pact

Answer 7

collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War;