Unit 7 - Vocabulary Review - MWH

The period of political tension following World War II and ending with the fall of Communism in the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s.

• Cold War

• Congo Crisis of 1960

• Cuban Revolution of 1959

• Vietnam War

During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to West Berlin.

• Berlin Blockade

• Berlin Airlift

• Berlin Wall

• Deterrence

Competition between the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States to achieve firsts in spaceflight capability.

• Space Race

• Arms Race

• Doomsday Clock

• Cuban Missile Crisis

A 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Turkish Missile Crisis

• The Cuban Proxy War

• Mutually Assured Destruction

A country that is economically and politically dependent on another country.

• Satellite States

• Containment

• Proxy War

• Protectorate

A United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad.

• Containment

• Deterrence

• Proxy War

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization

During the Cold War, the U.S. and Soviet policies of holding huge arsenals of nuclear weapons to prevent war; each nation believed that neither would launch a nuclear attack since both knew that the other side could strike back with devastating power.

• Deterrence

• Proxy War

• Containment

• Cold War

A war in which the powers in conflict use third parties as substitutes instead of fighting each other directly.

• Proxy War

• Deterrence

• Cold War

• Satellite States

An international alliance that consists of 29 member states from North America and Europe.

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• Warsaw Pact

• World Trade Organization

• World Health Organization

A collective defense treaty signed among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War.

• Warsaw Pact

• Congo Crisis of 1960

• Satellite States

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization