Cold War Review Activity

A struggle over political differences that does not break out into full war. The United States and the USSR and their allies were caught in a Cold War after the end of World War II into the 1990s.

• World War 2

• World War 1

• Cold War

• War of the Roses

Alliance of nations established in 1949 for the purpose of mutual defense. Originally including the US, Canada, and several western European nations.

• Axis

• Allies

• Warsaw Pact

• NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization

An alliance of Eastern European Nations with the Soviet Union during the cold war as a countermove toward NATO.

• Warsaw Pact

• Berlin Pact

• London Pact

• Prague Act

Countries of Eastern Europe that were indirectly controlled by the Soviet Union following World War II, including East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary.

• Ally

• Satellite Country

• Union Country

• Friend Country

Economic and political system based on the ownership of property by the community.

• Communism

• Democracy

• Feudalism

• Tribalism

A government in which power is held by the people through direct involvement or elected representatives.

• Communism

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Daycare

The political barrier, as first stated by Winston Churchill, isolating the Eastern-bloc European nations supporting communism from the Western-bloc democratic countries.

• Gold Shutter

• Copper Curtain

• Steel Blind

• Iron Curtain

The foreign policy goal of restricting the strategic power of a nation or bloc of nations; to contain communism in eastern Europe was the goal of the United States following World War II. This policy was part of the Cold War.

• Tupperware

• Pyrex

• Containment

• Rubbermaid

A policy statement by President ______________made in 1947 that promised military and economic aid to nations threatened by armed minorities or outside groups. Specifically targeted at Greece and Turkey who were threatened by communist aggression.

• Roosevelt

• Nixon

• Truman

• Bush

A plan for reconstruction of Europe after World War II . The purpose of plan was to rebuild Europe in order that trade might be resumed.

• Marshall Plan

• Wawrowski Plan

• Truman Plan

• FDR Plan