Cold war

Question 1

Laissez-Faire

Answer 1

a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering.

Question 2

Communist

Answer 2

a person who supports or believes in the principles of communism

Question 3

Democracy

Answer 3

a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.

Question 4

Truman Doctrine

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Reparations

Answer 5

the making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged.

Question 6

Marshall Plan

Answer 6

The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. … In addition to economic redevelopment, one of the stated goals of the Marshall Plan was to halt the spread communism on the European continent

Question 7

Berlin Wall

Answer 7

The Berlin Wall was built by the communist government of East Berlin in 1961. The wall separated East Berlin and West Berlin. When it was knocked down this symbolized the end of the Cold War.

Question 8

Containment

Answer 8

a geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States.

Question 9

Berlin Airlift

Answer 9

The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies’ railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.

Question 10

Warsaw Pact

Answer 10

The Warsaw Pact was a collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania (Albania withdrew in 1968).

Question 11

NATO

Answer 11

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 European and North American countries. The organization implements the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949

Question 12

Brinkmanship

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Sputnik

Answer 13

each of a series of Soviet artificial satellites, the first of which (launched on October 4, 1957) was the first satellite to be placed in orbit.

Question 14

Arms race

Answer 14

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.

Question 15

Sputnik

Answer 15

each of a series of Soviet artificial satellites, the first of which (launched on October 4, 1957) was the first satellite to be placed in orbit.

Question 16

Iron Curtain

Answer 16

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.

Question 17

Totalitarianism

Answer 17

a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.

Question 18

Capitalism

Answer 18

an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

Question 19

Space race

Answer 19

the competition between nations regarding achievements in the field of space exploration.

Question 20

In 1949 the United States and European countries worked together to form an alliance for protection against Communist aggression called N.A.T.O. What does N.A.T.O stand for?

Answer 20

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Question 21

Who was the dictator that controlled the Soviet Union?

Answer 21

Stalin ruled as absolute dictator of the Soviet Union throughout World War II and until his death in March 1953.

Question 22

Which event signaled the end of the Cold War?

Answer 22

The fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany were two of the events that signaled the end of the Cold War.

Question 23

A system where the government owns the factories and other natural resources AND controls the production of goods is known as _____________________.

Answer 23

Communism

Question 24

The Allied victory in World War II led to the emergence of TWO global superpowers. What were those TWO superpowers?

Answer 24

the global shift in power from Europe to two rival superpowers–the United States and the Soviet Union–that would soon face off against each other in the Cold War.

Question 25

Type of government where the government owns everything and makes all the decisions.

Answer 25

Communism