Cold War

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the period of political, ideological and economic rivalry that occurred after World War II between the former USSR and its communist allies and the United States and its democratic allies

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Cold War

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an economic and political system in which the government owns and controls all goods and means of production, and private property is eliminated

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communism

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the group of communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, generally the Soviet Union and the countries of the Warsaw Pact

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Eastern Bloc

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Cuban revolutionary and politician who governed Cuba as first prime minister and then president from 1959-2008

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Fidel Castro

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noncommunist countries, as opposed to those controlled by the USSR

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free world

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A U.S. Senator from Wisconsin who made claims that there were Soviet and Communist spies in the US federal government in 1950. He served in the Senate from 1947 until his death in 1957.

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Joseph McCarthy

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leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 and president from 1990-1991. He democratized the country's political system and decentralized its economy, leading to the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the end of the Cold War

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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Soviet leader during the height of the Cold War and premier from 1958 to 1964. He initiated a "de-Stalinization" process and approved the construction of the Berlin Wall

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Nikita Khrushchev

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a country that is officially independent, but in reality under heavy political, economic and military influence or control from another country.

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Satellite State

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a socialist federation of countries with a government centered in Russia that existed from 1922-1991. It was made up of 15 countries in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. Also called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

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Soviet Union