cold war vocab

Question 1

cold war

Answer 1

50 year, non fighting, war between communist countries and mixed economy countries

Question 2

Communism (command economy)

Answer 2

government completely controls the economy, no private ownership

Question 3

capitalism (market economy)

Answer 3

private ownership of everything, buyers and sellers decide what gets made and who gets what, laissez faire

Question 4

mixed economy

Answer 4

some private ownership, some government ownership. A mix between command and market economies

Question 5

containment

Answer 5

stop the spread of communism

Question 6

truman doctrine

Answer 6

US will help any country resisting communism

Question 7

Marshall Plan

Answer 7

US plan to rebuild Europe after WWII

Question 8

Berlin Blockade

Answer 8

Soviets block access to West Berlin

Question 9

Berlin Airlift

Answer 9

US & Great Britain drop supplies into west berlin during the blockade

Question 10

berlin wall

Answer 10

soviet wall dividing west and east berlin

Question 11

NATO

Answer 11

American Military Alliance against The Soviet Union & Warsaw Pact

Question 12

Warsaw Pact

Answer 12

USSR Military Alliance against the US and NATO

Question 13

Korean War

Answer 13

Containment Operation in Korea 1950 - 1953

Question 14

Domino Theory

Answer 14

If one country falls to communism others will as well, they will fall together like dominos

Question 15

Arms Race

Answer 15

Race to get the biggest baddest weapons (mostly nuclear bombs)

Question 16

Brinkmanship

Answer 16

living on the edge of nuclear war

Question 17

Mutually Assured Destruction

Answer 17

Prevented nuclear war. Both sides knew no one would win a nuclear war - everyone would be killed

Question 18

Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 18

USSR tried to set up nuclear warheads in cuba, almost lead to 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 USSR

Question 21

Dwight Eisenhower

Answer 21

US 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

Publically accusing people of disloyalty without evidence

Question 25

Blacklist

Answer 25

to ban someone (people who were accused of being communists were kept from jobs)

Question 26

Covert

Answer 26

Done in secret

Question 27

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg

Answer 27

American Couple executed for spying for the soviets