Cold war Vocabulary

Question 1

Proxy wars

Answer 1

This is a war instigated by a major power which does not itself become involved.

Question 2

Communist

Answer 2

Someone who trys to spread communism.

Question 3

Democracy

Answer 3

People that have freedom or the right to vote for Representitives.

Question 4

Truman doctrine

Answer 4

Was an American foreign policy with the primary goal of containing Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War.

Question 5

Reperations

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 United States transferred over $12 billion in economic recovery programs to Western European economies after the end of World War II.

Question 7

Berlin wall

Answer 7

The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.

Question 8

Containment

Answer 8

Containment is 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.

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.

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

Is like a rocket.

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

Domino Theory

Answer 15

This is if one country adopts communism another country around will do the same it will adopt communism.

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 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.

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

NATO stands for The North Alantic Treaty Orginization

Question 21

Which event signaled the end of the Cold War?

Answer 21

The Berlin Wall

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Communism

Question 23

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

Answer 23

The U.S and the and the Soviet Union known as the USSR

Question 24

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

Answer 24

A political system