Cold War Vocabulary

a state of tension between nations without actual fighting - between the US and Soviet Union 1945 – 1990.

• Cold War

• Vietnam War

• Hot War

• Pretend War

an economic system where the government owns the means of production.

• Capitalism

• Communism

• Free-Market

• Traditional

(FREE-ENTERPRISE SYSTEM) - citizens can own their own businesses with hope of making a profit

• Socialism

• Communism

• Capitalism

• Traditional

International peacekeeping organization developed after WWII. Member nations agreed to bring disputes to the organization for peaceful settlement.

• League of Nations

• Warsaw Pact

• NATO

• United Nations

Nations controlled by the Soviet Union during the Cold War as a buffer to a united Germany. Ex: Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania.

• NATO

• Satellite States

• Warsaw Pact

• Iron Curtain

$400 million in military aid was given to Turkey and Greece so they would not be taken over by communist rebels.

• Containment

• Marshall Plan

• Domino Theory

• Truman Doctrine

$12 billion given to Western European countries to rebuild after WWII. Now they would not have to turn to the Soviet Union for help and become communist.

• Marshall Plan

• Containment

• Truman Doctrine

• Cuban Missile Crisis

Stop communism from spreading and keeping communism to the areas where it exists. US foreign policy started by President Truman.

• Truman Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• Containment

• Berlin Blockade

North Atlantic Treaty Organization. US formed a military alliance with friendly nations – mostly in Western Europe- member nations pledged to defend one another if they were attacked.

• Warsaw Pact

• United Nations

• League of Nations

• NATO

a military alliance of eastern European nations formed by the Soviet Union in 1955

• Warsaw Pact

• United Nations

• League of Nations

• NATO