Cold War Vocab

Question 0

Iron Curtain

Answer 0

boundary separating the communist nations(east Europe) from the democratic nations(west Europe)

Question 1

United Nations

Answer 1

an international peace-keeping organization, providing security to the nations of the world

Question 2

Truman Doctrine

Answer 2

US policy of giving economic and military aid

Question 3

Marshall Plan

Answer 3

US program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after WW2

Question 4

Cold War

Answer 4

state of diplomatic hostility between US & USSR following after WW2

Question 5

NATO

Answer 5

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

-a defensive military alliance formed by 10 W. Euro nations, US, and Canada

Question 6

Warsaw Pact

Answer 6

a military alliance formed by the USSR & 7 eastern Euro. countries

Question 7

Red Guards

Answer 7

militia units formed by young Chinese people in response to Mao Zedong’s call for a social/cultural revolution

Question 8

Cultural Revolution

Answer 8

uprising in China led by Red guards, with the goal of est. a society of all equal peasants & workers

Question 9

Communism

Answer 9

economic system in which all means of production and goods are all shared equally/government owned

Question 10

Democracy

Answer 10

system of government by the whole population, typically through elected representatives

Question 11

Brinkmanship

Answer 11

policy threatening to go to war in response to any enemy aggression

Question 12

Mao Zedong

Answer 12

communist leader, believed revolution will solve China’s problems

Question 13

Jiang Jieshi

Answer 13

promised democracy & political rights to all Chinese

Question 14

Commune

Answer 14

in communist China, a collective farm on which a great number of people work & live together