Cold War Vocabulary

Commercial agriculture characterized by integration of different steps in the food-processing industry, usually through ownership by large corporations.

• Communism
• Capitalism
• Agribusiness
• Consumerism

Sending cargo planes to deliver tons of supplies to the people

• Airlift
• Care package 
• Satellite
• Surveillance

Cold war competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union to build up their respective forces and weapons

• Arms Race
• Nuke Race
• Space Race
• Brinkmanship

A United States youth subculture of the 1950s that rebelled against the mundane horrors of middle class life.

• Beatnik
• Steampunk
• Pop Culture
• Polarization

People banned from certain jobs because of suspected communist ties

• Blacklist
• Blockade
• Denounce
• Deterrence

An act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.

• Tribunal
• Blockade
• Detente
• Suspected

A policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy aggression.

• Brinkmanship
• Defect
• Denounce
• Detente

An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

• Capitalism
• Communism
• Consumerism
• McCarthyism

A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

• Communism
• Capitalism
• Consumerism
• Agribusiness

Adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.

• Conformity
• Polarization
• Suspected
• Generation