Cold War Vocabulary Flashcards
Laissez-Faire
A policy of letting things take their own course
Communist
A person who supports in principles
Democracy
A system of government by the whole population
Truman Doctrine
The Principle that the US gives supports to countries
Reparations
The making of amends for a wrong one
Marshall Plan
The European recovery program
Berlin Wall
A created wire barrier that separated east to west
Containment
The action of keeping something harmful under control
Berlin Airlift
A military operation that brought food to west Berlin by air
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw treaty organization
NATO
The North Atlantic treaty organization
Brinkmanship
The art of pursuing a dangerous policy
Sputnik
Each of a series of soviet artificail
Arms Race
A competition between nation for superiority
Domino Theory
A theory that a political event in one country
Iron Curtain
A national barrier separating the former soviet bloc and the west prior
Totalitarianism
A system of government that is centralized
Capitalism
An economic and political system
Space Race
The competition between nations
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?
The North Atlantic treaty organization
Who was the dictator that controlled the Soviet Union?- Joseph Stalin
Bukharin,Tomsky,and Rykov
Which event signaled the end of the Cold War?-Berlin wall coming down
The berlin was coming down
A system where the government owns the factories and other natural resources AND controls the production of goods is known as _____________________. Communimsm
Ownership
The Allied victory in World War II led to the emergence of TWO global superpowers. What were those TWO superpowers? USA AND Soviet Union
USA and Soviet Union
