Cold War Vocabulary Flashcards
Proxy Wars
Wars that are not directly to the opponent
Communist
Where the government controls everything
Democracy
Where the people believe in freedom
Truman Doctrine
A law meaning the soviets cannot spread communism anymore
Reparations
Fix what he or she has done wrong
Marshall Plan
Giving food to the europeans to help them recover from the war.
Berlin Wall
To divide the west and the east of germany
Containment
Preventing a type of government form happening
Berlin Airlift
The US and Britain gave a lot of supplies to west
Warsaw Pact
A pact in the east of europe including the soviet union
NATO
A pact in the west of europe including the united states
Brinkmanship
Both sides were on edge of war
Sputnik
The first artificial satellite created by the soviet union
Arms Race
The US and the Soviet Union were battling to see who had the best technology.
Domino’s Theory
A theor that if one country heard of communism it would spread like a chain reaction.
Iron Curtain
Something to divide west and east europe
Totalitarianism
Having control over private and public life
Capitalism
Money is invested in order to make more
Space Race
Where the united states had payed a lot of money to have better science education.
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?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Who was the dictator that controlled the Soviet Union?
Stalin
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 United States and the Soviet Union
