Cold War Vocabulary

Scientific Competition between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R that led to advancements in the targeted field.

• Fallout

• Space Race

• Sputnik

• Containment

This incident brought the U.S. and the U.S.S.R the closest to nuclear war.

• Berlin Airlift

• Bay of Pigs

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Truman Doctrine

An economic plan to ensure the damaged nations of Europe would not adopt communistic government.

• NATO

• Generation Gap

• Yalta COnference

• Marshall Plan

The promotion of a political or personal point-of-view through the use of biased and deceptive information.

• Propaganda

• espionage

• Ideology

• Containment

Term coined by Winston Churchill that described the ideological and political barrier that split the European continent along communistic and capitalistic ideals.

• Arms Race

• Iron Curtain

• Red Scare

• Potsdam Conference

President during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bay of Pigs.

• Harry Truman

• Richard Nixon

• Joseph Stalin

• John F. Kennedy

Capitalism is a system of

• an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production are held by the private individual.

• a political and economic system that emphasizes the advancement of the nation along with racial traits.

• a political and economic system in which goods and the means of production are owned by the state and needs of the people are met by them.

• a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.

Communism is a system of

• a system of government in which priests’ rule in the name of God or a god

• An economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production are held by the private individual

• a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives using various voting methods.

• A political and economic system in which goods and the means of production are owned by the state and needs of the people are meet by them

Which organization was created in response to the creation of NATO?

• Iron Curtain

• Red Scare

• Sputnik

• Warsaw Pact

The rapid build-up of militaries between the United States and the U.S.S.R was called

• Proxy Wars

• Quarantine

• Propaganda

• Arms Race