Cold War Vocabulary

Question 1

Laissez-Faire

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Communist

Answer 2

A country, ruled by a dictator, who cared little about human rights.

Question 3

Democracy

Answer 3

People have the freedom to choose or elect repersentatives .

Question 4

Truman Doctrine

Answer 4

Its when a country helped nations that were threatened by communism

Question 5

Reparations

Answer 5

a ‘buffer’ of friendly states to protect the USSR from being invaded again

Question 6

Marshall Plan

Answer 6

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

blocking the Soviets from spreading communism.

Question 9

Berlin Airlift

Answer 9

he 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 June 1948 to May 1949, U.S. and British planes airlift 1.5 million tons of supplies to the residents of West Berlin. After 200,000 flights, flying food and supplies into the city for 11 months. Finally, the Soviets lifted the blockade.

Question 10

Warsaw Pact

Answer 10

The Soviets and the countries of Eastern Europe made a similar agreement.the Soviet Union announced that it had developed an atomic bomb

Question 11

NATO

Answer 11

The United States, Canada, and several countries in Western Europe formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). NATO was a military alliance.

Question 12

Brinkmanship

Answer 12

Both sides were willing to go to the brink, or edge, of war. This became known as brinkmanship

Question 13

Sputnik

Answer 13

The Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world’s first human-made satellite

Question 14

Arms Race

Answer 14

It was a nuclear warfare between the United States and the Soviet Union and their representative allies during the Cold War.

Question 15

Domino Theory’

Answer 15

this was my cold war policy that was suggested a communist government and one of the nation’s would quickly lead to Communists take over the neighborhood States each falling like the a row of dominoes

Question 16

Iron Curtain

Answer 16

This divided Europe between East and West. Winston Churchill called this symbolic division the “iron curtain.”
Soviet forces occupied lands along its western border

Question 17

Totalitarianism

Answer 17

Under Stalin the Soviet Union took control of all aspects of both public and private life

Question 18

Capitalism

Answer 18

An economic system in which money is invested with the goal of making more money (profit)

Question 19

Space Race

Answer 19

The United States then began spending huge amounts of money to improve science education. This era of scientific competition was known as the Space Race. The U-2 incident brought more tension. The United States sent planes, called U-2 planes, to spy over Soviet territory

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

N.A.T.O standfor North Atlantic Treaty Organization and NATO was a military alliance.

Question 21

Who was the dictator that controlled the Soviet Union?

Answer 21

It was Joseph Stalin who controlled the soviet union .

Question 22

Which event signaled the end of the Cold War?

Answer 22

The cold war end because the Berlin wall coming down

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Its is know as Communimsm

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Its was USA AND Soviet Union

Question 25

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

Answer 25

The goverenment would be Communism