Cold War

Question 1

Cold War

Answer 1

~50-year, Non-fighting war between countries with Communist and Mixed Economies

Question 2

Communism(Command Economy)

Answer 2

~The government completely controls the economy.
~NO private ownership of nothing: -Hot Water
~Ex. Soviet Union, North Korea, China, and Cuba.

Question 3

Capitalism(Market Economy)

Answer 3

~Private ownership of everything.
~Buyers and sellers decide what gets made and who gets what
~Laissez Faire
~Cold Water

Question 4

Mixed Market Economy

Answer 4

~Some private and some government ownership.
~Mix between CE & ME
~Ex. The USA, Great Britain, Canada

Question 5

Containment

Answer 5

~Stop the spread of Communism

Question 6

Truman Doctrine

Answer 6

~ U.S. will help any country resisting Communism

Question 7

Marshall Plan

Answer 7

~ U.S. plan to Rebuild Europe after WWII.

~Anti-Communist Plan

Question 8

Berlin Blockade

Answer 8

~Soviets cut off access to West Berlin.

~Has nothing to do with the Berlin Wall *chant!

Question 9

Berlin Airlift

Answer 9

~ U.S. & Great Britain dropped supplies into West Berlin during the blockade.

Question 10

Berlin Wall

Answer 10

~ Soviet-built wall dividing East and West Berlin.

Question 11

NATO

Answer 11

~American Military Alliance against the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact.

Question 12

Warsaw Pact

Answer 12

~Soviet Military Alliance against the U.S.A. & NATO.

Question 13

Korean War

Answer 13

~Containment operation in Korea-1950 to 1953

Question 14

Domino Theory

Answer 14

~If one country falls to communism, others will too.

Question 15

Arms Race

Answer 15

~Competition for the most destructive weapons.

Question 16

Brinkmanship

Answer 16

~Living on the edge of all-out nuclear war

Question 17

M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction)

Answer 17

~Part of Brinkmanship that prevented a nuclear war.

~Both sides know that no one would win in a nuclear war-everyone would be killed.

Question 18

Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 18

~Soviet Union tried to put nuclear missiles in Cuba to use against the U.S.A.
~Almost resulted in nuclear war.

Question 19

Space Race

Answer 19

~Competition for most advanced space technology.

Question 20

Sputnik

Answer 20

~World’s first satellite- launched by the U.S.S.R.

Question 21

Dwight Eisenhower

Answer 21

~U.S. President- 1953- 1961

Question 22

Prosperity

Answer 22

~Living well; high standard of living.

Question 23

Joseph McCarthy

Answer 23

~Senator who accused many of being Communists in America.

Question 24

McCarthyism

Answer 24

~Publicly accusing people of disloyalty without evidence.

Question 25

Blacklist

Answer 25

~To ban someone (people accused of being Communist were kept from jobs)

Question 26

Covert

Answer 26

~Done in secret.

Question 27

Ethel & Julius Rosenberg

Answer 27

~American couple executed for spying for Soviets. (selling nuclear secrets)