Cold War Vocabulary

The program proposed by Secretary of State in 1947, under which the United States supplied economic aid to European nations to help them rebuild after World War II.

• Marshall Plan

• McDonald Plan

• Roosevelt Plan

• Truman Plan

An imaginary line that separated Communist countries in the Soviet Bloc of Eastern Europe (USSR) from countries in Western Europe.

• Berlin Airlift

• Iron Curtain

• Czech Curtain

• Greenwich Mean Time

What is depicted here?

• Heathrow Airport

• Iron Curtain

• Berlin Airlift

• Containment

Cuban Missile Crisis

• A confrontation between the US & the USSR in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba; one of the “hottest” periods of the Cold war.

• Roosevelt was particularly anxious to secure the cooperation of Stalin, while Churchill was apprehensive of the Soviet power.

• The Berlin Blockade forced allies to shuttle supplies into Berlin via aircraft.

• This was the United States’ first test of a dry fuel hydrogen bomb.

NATO a defensive military alliance formed in1949 by ten Western European countries, the US and Canada.

• Not American Tea Organization

• North American Treatment Organizer

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• Nice Army Treaty Organizer

House on Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

• A defensive military alliance formed in1949 by ten Western European countries, the United States and Canada.

• Investigated private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communist ties.

• A lack of popular confidence in the truth of the claims or public

  statements made by the federal government, large corporations, politicians, etc.

• a Cold War term used in the US for the perceived superiority of the number and power of the USSR's missiles in comparison with its own.

The first satellite to orbit Earth. History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched this it marked the start of the space age.

• Sputnik

• Tutnik

• Apollo

• Cosmos

What does the illustration depicted here?

• Domino Theory

• Time and Space Theory

• Containment Theory

• Conspiracy Theory

Hollywood Ten

• 10 Hollywood writers that began the new age of adding more realism to the screen

• The original 10 Hollywood stars, which included Charlie Chaplin and Marilyn Monroe.

• 10 witnesses from the film industry who refused to cooperate with the HUAC’s investigation of Communist influence in Hollywood.

• 10 Hollywood directors who were sent to the Soviet Union to director a new age film.

A barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989 & completely cut off West Berlin from East Berlin & surrounding Eastern Germany. A symbol of the Cold War, separating families and keeping the people from jobs and opportunity in the west.

• Berlin Airlift

• Hamburg Wall

• Berlin Wall

• Iron Wall