Early Cold War vocabulary Quiz RETAKE

An important British leader gave a speech referring to a barrier or division of Europe that separated nations in the “Soviet sphere” from the capitalist democracies in the western part of Europe. He referred to this separation or division of nations as the

• Winston Churchill

• Berlin Wall

• Iron Curtain

• Clement Attlee

This is a military alliance created for the collective defense and security of the Soviets and their satellite nations

• N.A.T.O.

• Warsaw Pact

• Axis powers

• Marshal Plan

In this type of economy, the means of production is individually owned and controlled

• Communism

• Capitalism

This term refers to when a capital city, located in the Soviet-controlled zone of Eastern Germany, was cut off from all transportation and shipments of goods

• Berlin Wall

• Berlin Blockade

• Warsaw Pact

• Joseph Stalin

This term is the name for the U.S. foreign policy followed during the Cold War that sought to prevent the expansion of Soviet communism

• Iron Curtain

• containment

• appeasement

This is the name for the U.S. foreign policy of sending military or other aid to any nation trying to resist or prevent a communist takeover

• imperialism

• Red Scare

• Truman Doctrine

• McCarthyism

This is the name for a program to help Europe recover after WW2 by providing money to help rebuild their economies

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• Iron Curtain

• Warsaw Pact

In 1949, the U.S, Canada, and ten Western European countries joined this defensive military alliance. These nations promised to defend each other in the event of an outside attack

• Warsaw Pact

• Axis Powers

• N.A.T.O.

Term for Eastern European countries dominated economically and politically by the Soviet Union

• Satellite nations

• dominant states

• Berlin Crisis

• United Nations

This is the term given for the struggle for world power between the Soviet Union (with their allies)and the United States from the end of WW2 until 1991 when the Soviet government collapsed. There was hostility between these nations, but no direct military action between them.

• Iron Curtain

• Allied Struggle

• Soviet Domination

• Cold War