Cold War vocabulary

Question 1

containment

Answer 1

goal of preventing the Soviet Union from expanding its influence

Question 2

Truman doctrine

Answer 2

policy of providing aid to help foreign countries fight communism

Question 3

Marshall Plan

Answer 3

program under which the U.S. gave aid to Western European countries to rebuild and stabilize their economies defensive military alliance of the U.S., Canada, and ten Western European nations

Question 4

Warsaw Pact

Answer 4

alliance between Soviet Union and Eastern European countries

Question 5

arms race

Answer 5

competition between U.S. and Soviet Union for greater military might

Question 6

Iron Curtain

Answer 6

The Iron Curtain was a political boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II

Question 7

Proxy Wars

Answer 7

a war instigated by a major power which does not itself become involved.

Question 8

Communist

Answer 8

a person who supports or believes in the principles of communism.

Question 9

Democracy

Answer 9

a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.

Question 10

Reparations

Answer 10

the making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged.

Question 11

Berlin Wall

Answer 11

The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989

Question 12

NATO

Answer 12

NATO is an alliance of countries from Europe and North America.

Question 13

Brinkmanship

Answer 13

a foreign policy practice in which one or both parties force the interaction between them to the threshold of confrontation in order to gain an advantageous negotiation position over the other

Question 14

Sputnik

Answer 14

A attendant or companion traveler

Question 15

Domino Theory

Answer 15

A theory were if one thing happens to one person/thing that it will happen to everyone/everything else.

Question 16

Totalitarianism

Answer 16

a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.

Question 17

Capitalism

Answer 17

goal of preventing the Soviet Union from expanding its influence

Question 18

Space Race

Answer 18

The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals

Question 19

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 19

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Question 20

Who was the dictator that controlled the Soviet Union?

Answer 20

Stalin

Question 21

Which event signaled the end of the Cold War?

Answer 21

The Berlin Wall, the Iron Curtain was lifted and the Cold War came to an end.

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Communism, also known as a command system

Question 23

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

Answer 23

US and USSR

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Communism