Cold War Vocabulary Quiz

Joint effort by the US and Britain to fly food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union blocked off all ground routes into the city.

• Cold War

• Blockade

• Berlin Airlift

• Iron Curtain

Surrounding an enemy's territory in wartime to keep people and supplies from passing through

• Iron Curtain

• Communism

• Blockade

• NATO

The power struggle between the Soviet Union and the US after WW2. A war of words.

• Korean War

• Vietnam War

• Cold War

• WW1

A system where the government owns the factories and natural resources and controls production of goods, people are NOT free

• democracy

• Capitalism

• Communism

• No Freedom

United States discovered that the Soviet Union was supplying long range jet bombers and missiles to Cuba. This was the closest the United States came to a nuclear war.

• Cold War

• Korean War

• Vietnam War

• Cuban Missile Crisis

What Winston Churchill called the division between the Soviet- dominated east and the U.S- dominated West.

• Communism

• Cold War

• Berlin Wall

• Iron Curtain

Senator who accused U.S state department officials of being Communist.

• Babe Ruth

• Harry Truman

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Joseph McCarthy

War between communist controlled North Korea and US backed South Korea

• Cold War

• Vietnam War

• Korean War

• WW2

A soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis

• Joseph Stalin

• Adolf Hitler

• Harry Truman

• Nikita Khrushchev

Alliance between countries for protection against communist aggression.

• Peace Treaty

• Treaty of Vercilles

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

• Treaty of Paris