Cold War Vocabulary

A _________ is a nation stronger than other powerful nations

What is a détente?

• A pretty girl

• A period of major tension in the Cold War

• the relaxation of Cold War tensions during the 1970's

• the threat of war

What does ideology mean?

• Idol worship

• New ideas for inventions

• A religion

• system of thought and belief

The U.S. strategy of limiting communism to the areas

already under Soviet control was known as ________________?

mutual dependence of countries on goods, resources, labor, and knowledge from other parts of the world

• The inability to work alone

• The ability to work alone`

• interdependence

• the same as independent

The forced joining together of workers and property into collectives, such as rural collectives that absorb peasants and their land__________________________

A thin band of territory across the Korean peninsula separating North Korean forces from South Korean forces

• boarder

• wall

• militarized zone

• demilitarized zone (DMZ)

A guerrilla is what?

• a great big monkey

• a soldier in a loosely organized force making surprise raids

What is the belief that a communist victory in South Vietnam would cause noncommunist governments across Southeast Asia to fall to communism, like a row of dominoes?

Glasnost is a Russian word meaning________and policy of greater freedom of expression for Soviet citizens.

• closed

• openness

• secret

• freedom