COLD WAR - Vocab Review

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The period of hostility between the Soviet Union and its allies against the United States and its allies.

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Cold War

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_________________________– agreements among competing groups of nations to help each other if war broke out

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Alliances

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_____________________________– an alliance during WWI consisting of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria.

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Central Powers

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____________________________– an alliance during WWI consisting of Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, and the United States.

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Allied Powers

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The Cold War was a rivalry that sparked between the United States and what other country?

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Soviet Union

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Bolsheviks

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Russian political group that advocated communism; seized control of Russia in October 1917; grew into the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

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Definition of COMMUNISM

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A political and economic system in which government owns all property and makes all economic decisions.

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Definition of EMERGED

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To come into view or become visible. To become known.

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Definition of COLLECTIVIZATION

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A shift of control from an individual or company to a group called a collective.

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Definition of GULAGS

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GULAGS were prison labor camps in the Soviet Union.