Mr. Scott's US History- Cold War Vocabulary

Independent nations under control of a more powerful nation.

• satellite nations

• service sector

• nationalized

• multinational corporations

Term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the border between the Soviet satellite states and Western Europe

• Iron Curtain

• Blacklist

• Service Sector

• Containment

Policy of keeping communism contained within its existing borders

• Containment

• Blacklist

• Demobilization

• Iron Curtain

World wide rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union

• Limited War

• Containment

• Brinkmanship

• Arms Race

Competition between superpowers to build more powerful nuclear weapons

• Arms Race

• Limited War

• Brinkmanship

• Nuclear Family

Policy in which the United States and the Soviet Union hoped to deter nuclear war by building up enough weapons to destroy one another

• Brinkmanship

• Mutually Assured Destruction

• Massive Retaliation

• Demobilization

Policy of threatening to use massive force in response to aggression.

• Massive Retaliation

• Mutually Assured Destruction

• Limited War

• Baby Boom

Belief that only by going to the brink of war could the United States protect itself against the Soviets

• Massive Retaliation

• Brinkmanship

• Arms Race

• Mutually Assured Destruction

Describing a secretive act done with the intention of overthrowing or destroying a government or political system

• Black List

• Subversive

• Demobilization

• Limited War

Sending home members of the army

• Mobilization

• Demobilization

• Black List

• Service sector