Cold War Vocabulary '20

An act of transporting supplies by aircraft during an emergency

• Drone

• Helicopter

• Hot Air Balloon

• Airlift

The competition between the Soviet Union and the U.S. in the area of military weapon systems

• Arms Wrestling

• Arms Race

• Weapons Build Up

• Military Mobilization

An unsuccessful military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the United States in 1961

• Cuban Blockade

• Military Defense

• Cuban Crisis

• Bay of Pigs

Occurred when the Allied Powers of France, Great Britain and the United States airlifted (sending cargo planes to deliver tons of supplies to the people of West Berlin) until May 1949

• Berlin Blockade

• Berlin Airlift

• Berlin Containment

• Berlin Doctrine

A guarded concrete wall, 28 miles long, with minefields and controlled checkpoints, built across Berlin by the East German government on August 13, 1961, to separate East and West Berlin. Built to keep East Germans out of West Berlin.

• Berlin Wall

• Berlin Blockade

• Great Wall of Berlin

• Wall of WWII

The use of military troops or ships to prevent the flow of goods and people

• Build Up

• Break Through

• Bombing

• Blockade

The time of political and military rivalry between the Soviet Union and the U.S. from 1945 to 1991

• Post WWII

• Cold War

• Race for Space

• Arms Race

A system in which the government owns most businesses

• Capitalism

• Free Enterprise

• Socialism

• Communism

The policy of the U.S. to prevent the spread of communism by the Soviet Union

• Containment

• Communism

• Cold War

• Marshall Plan

A 14-day confrontation in 1962 between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other side. The crisis is generally regarded as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to turning into a Nuclear Conflict

• Blockade

• Cuban Airlift

• Bay of Pigs

• Cuban Missile Crisis