Cold War Vocab

Question 0

A theory that if one nation becomes communist-controlled the neighboring nations will also become communist controlled

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Domino Theory

Question 1

A final stage of society in Marxist theory in which the state has withered away and economic goods are distributed equitably

Answer 1

Communism

Question 2

A country that is dominated politically and economically by another nation

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Satellite nation

Question 3

A 327-day operation in which U.S and British planes flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviets blockaded the city in 1948

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Berlin Airlift

Question 4

The ideological conflict between the U.S and the union of Soviet socialist republics during the second half of the 20th century

Answer 4

Cold War

Question 5

The blocking of another nations attempt to spread its influence, especially the efforts of the United States to block the spread of soviet influence during the late 1940s and early 1950s

Answer 5

Containment

Question 6

A defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European counties, the United States, and Canada

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Question 7

An extremely powerful nation

Answer 7

Super power

Question 8

Rocket-powered object, often carrying a nuclear warhead, which is shot into the air and hits its ground target after a free fall

Answer 8

Ballistic missile

Question 9

A system of maintaining world peace and security by concerted action on the part of the nations of the world

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Collective Security

Question 10

A list of about 500 actors, writers, producers, and directors who were not allowed to work on Hollywood films because of their alleged communist connections

Answer 10

Blacklist

Question 11

People who work secretly inside a country to over throw the government

Answer 11

Subversives

Question 12

Name given the line that separated Western (Free) Europe and Soviet controlled communist East Europe

Answer 12

Iron Curtain

Question 13

A international peacekeeping organization to which most nations in the world belong, founded in 1945 to promote world peace, security, and economic development

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United Nations

Question 14

A drawn contest: deadlock

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Stalemate

Question 15

President truman’s plan to keep the Korean War on the Korean Peninsula, rather than enlarging it by attacking China or using nuclear weapons

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Limited War

Question 16

The practice of threatening an enemy with massive military retaliation for any aggression

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Brinkmanship

Question 17

A concrete wall that separated East Berlin and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, build by the communist East German government to prevent its citizens from fleeing to the west

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Berlin Wall

Question 18

A communication link established in 1963 to allow the leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union to contact each other in times of crisis

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Hotline

Question 19

Competition without war, or a policy of peace between nations of widely differing political systems and ideologies, especially between communist and a non communist nations

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Peaceful Coexistence

Question 20

The flexible policy, involving a willingness to negotiate and an easing of tensions that was adopted by president Richard Nixon and his adviser Henry Kissinger in their dealings with communist nations

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Détente

Question 21

A five-year agreement between the U.S and the Soviet Union, signed in 1972 that limited the nations numbers of intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine launched missiles

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Salt 1 treaty

Question 22

The open discussion of social problems that was permitted in the Soviet Union in1980s

Answer 22

Glastnost