Cold war vocabulary

Question 1

Laissez-Faire

Answer 1

A policy attitude of letting things take their own course without interfering

Question 2

communism

Answer 2

government control production money the government owns everything to share it equally among all people

Question 3

Democracy

Answer 3

Free elections and competing political parties

Question 4

Truman Doctrine

Answer 4

Truman began a policy of containment—blocking the Soviets from spreading communism.

Question 5

Reparations

Answer 5

reparations from Germany, and a ‘buffer’ of friendly states to protect the USSR from being invaded again.

Question 6

Marshall Plan

Answer 6

Marshall Plan in 1947. This plan gave food and other aid to European countries to help them recover from the war.

Question 7

Berlin Wall

Answer 7

The Berlin Wall was built by the communist government of East Berlin in 1961. The wall separated East Berlin and West Berlin. When it was knocked down this symbolized the end of the Cold War.

Question 8

Containment

Answer 8

containment—blocking the Soviets from spreading communism.

Question 9

Berlin Airlift

Answer 9

The United States and Britain responded with the Berlin airlift. On June 24, the Soviet Union made a bid for control of Berlin by blockading all land access to the city. From

Question 10

Warsaw Pact

Answer 10

Warsaw Pact. In 1949, the Soviet Union announced that it had developed an atomic bomb

Question 11

NATO

Answer 11

To defend each nation other from sovie attack

Question 12

Brinkmanship

Answer 12

pushing dangers situations

Question 13

Sputnik

Answer 13

Sputnik, the world’s first human-made satellite.

Question 14

Arms Race

Answer 14

The U-2 incident brought more tension. The United States sent planes, called U-2 planes, to spy over Soviet territory. One was shot down

Question 15

Domino Theory’

Answer 15

the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall.

Question 16

Iron Curtain

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At the end of World War II, Soviet forces occupied lands along its western border.

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 system in which money is invested with the goal of making more money (profit)
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Question 19

Space Race

Answer 19

The U-2 incident brought more tension. The United States sent planes, called U-2 planes, to spy over Soviet territory. One was shot down in 1960.