Cold War Vocabulary Flashcards
Laissez-Faire
A policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering.
Communist
A country, ruled by a dictator, who cared little about human rights.
Democracy
People have the freedom to choose or elect repersentatives .
Truman Doctrine
Its when a country helped nations that were threatened by communism
Reparations
a ‘buffer’ of friendly states to protect the USSR from being invaded again
Marshall Plan
This plan gave food and other aid to European countries to help them recover from the war
Berlin Wall
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.
Containment
blocking the Soviets from spreading communism.
Berlin Airlift
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.
Warsaw Pact
The Soviets and the countries of Eastern Europe made a similar agreement.the Soviet Union announced that it had developed an atomic bomb
NATO
The United States, Canada, and several countries in Western Europe formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). NATO was a military alliance.
Brinkmanship
Both sides were willing to go to the brink, or edge, of war. This became known as brinkmanship
Sputnik
The Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world’s first human-made satellite
Arms Race
It was a nuclear warfare between the United States and the Soviet Union and their representative allies during the Cold War.
Domino Theory’
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
Iron Curtain
This divided Europe between East and West. Winston Churchill called this symbolic division the “iron curtain.”
Soviet forces occupied lands along its western border
Totalitarianism
Under Stalin the Soviet Union took control of all aspects of both public and private life
Capitalism
An economic system in which money is invested with the goal of making more money (profit)
Space Race
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
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?
N.A.T.O standfor North Atlantic Treaty Organization and NATO was a military alliance.
Who was the dictator that controlled the Soviet Union?
It was Joseph Stalin who controlled the soviet union .
Which event signaled the end of the Cold War?
The cold war end because the Berlin wall coming down
A system where the government owns the factories and other natural resources AND controls the production of goods is known as _____________________.
Its is know as Communimsm
The Allied victory in World War II led to the emergence of TWO global superpowers. What were those TWO superpowers?
Its was USA AND Soviet Union
