Cold War Vocabulary Quiz

The political idea that all property should be publicly owned and managed by a central government.

• Communism

• Democracy

• Nikita Khruschev

• John F. Kennedy

This is the term used to describe the period of tension between the United States and Soviet Union in which people felt that the two countries would eventually go to war. (A war of words and ideas)

• The Cuban Missile Crisis

• The Korean War

• The Cold War

• The Bay of Pigs

This is the imaginary wall that divided Europe into 2 economies—half of it was communist and the other half was a democracy.

• The Iron Curtain

• The Cold War

• The Berlin Wall

• Communism

A military operation led by the United States after World War II. The residents of West Berlin,Germany, were blockaded by the Soviet Union. Led by the United States, Western nations delivered foodand supplies to them by airplane.

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• The Bay of Pigs

• The Berlin Airlift

• The Berlin Wall

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, an alliance of Western democratic nations formed after World War II to defend themselves against communist aggression.

• The Berlin Airlift

• The Iron Curtain

• United Nations

• NATO

This war was fought to stop the spread of communism into South Korea

• The Vietnam War

• The Korean War

• The Cuban Missile Crisis

• The Cold War

This event occurred when the Soviet Union placed nuclear missiles in Cuba. The United States sent ships to blockade the island of Cuba. After 13 days, the Soviet Union agreed to remove the nuclear missiles and the United States promised not to attack Cuba

• The Berlin Airlift

• The Bay of Pigs

• The Cuban Missile Crisis

• The Cold War

A prolonged war that different from other wars because it was seen on television, between the communist armies of North Vietnam and the non-communist armies of South Vietnam.

• The Vietnam War

• The Korean War

• The Cuban Missile Crisis

• The Cold War

communist dictator of Russia /Soviet Union during the Cold War

• John F. Kennedy

• Fidel Castro

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Winston Churchill

a U.S. senator who believed the communist were trying to gain control of the United States government

• Fidel Castro

• Joseph McCarthy

• Harry Truman

• John F. Kennedy