Cold war Vocabulary Flashcards
Proxy wars
This is a war instigated by a major power which does not itself become involved.
Communist
Someone who trys to spread communism.
Democracy
People that have freedom or the right to vote for Representitives.
Truman doctrine
Was an American foreign policy with the primary goal of containing Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War.
Reperations
The making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged.
Marshall Plan
The United States transferred over $12 billion in economic recovery programs to Western European economies after the end of World War II.
Berlin wall
The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
Containment
Containment is a geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States.
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.
Warsaw Pact
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).
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 European and North American countries.
Brinkmanship
The art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, especially in politics.
Sputnik
Is like a rocket.
Arms Race
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.
Domino Theory
This is if one country adopts communism another country around will do the same it will adopt communism.
Iron curtain
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.
Totalitarianism
A system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.
Capitalism
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.
Space Race
The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), to achieve superior spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the ballistic missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations following World War II.
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?
NATO stands for The North Alantic Treaty Orginization
Which event signaled the end of the Cold War?
The Berlin Wall
A system where the government owns the factories and other natural resources AND controls the production of goods is known as _____________________.
Communism
The Allied victory in World War II led to the emergence of TWO global superpowers. What were those TWO superpowers?
The U.S and the and the Soviet Union known as the USSR
Type of government where the government owns everything and makes all the decisions.
A political system
